Automatically detect and change the name of attachments containing special characters such as accented letters.
As of April 2026, Safe Attachment Names is a WordPress admin plugin with 70 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Top alternative: Loginizer.
Accented file names can cause various problems when hosting or transferring a web site from a server to another.
This plugin automatically detects and changes the name of attachments containing special characters such as accented letters.
For example: if a user uploads a file named “L’École de Éric Rémillard.png”, the file name will be transformed and the file will be stored as “l_ecole_de_eric_remillard.png”.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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