Clean Filenames
Removes or replace international or special characters that can make your filenames not compliant with some servers or services.
4.6(8 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Clean Filenames is a WordPress utf-8 plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 28K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Full UTF-8.
4.6/58 reviews
3.0K+active installs
28K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Features
It takes the following steps for getting cleaner and safe to use filenames
- Removes or replace special/international characters that can make your filenames not compliant with servers that don’t have support for international locales and filenames, or third-party services. (e.g. ‘España.png’ will become ‘Espana.png’, ‘prüfen’ will become ‘prufen’).
- Replaces any ‘+’ in the filename with ‘-‘ (e.g. ‘A+nice+picture.png’ will become ‘A-nice-picture.png’).
- Replaces any ‘.’ character before the one used for file extension with ‘-‘(e.g. ‘A.nice.picture.png’ will become ‘A-nice-picture.png’).
- After running all character replacement filters,…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works very well out of the box
by Ishko·4 years ago
Very useful and clean, strips every non standard character of all your filenames when uploading. Just activate and forget 🙂
Thanks to the dev for keeping the plugin updated, great job !
Looks Nice but supports Turkish ?
by yasindedo1·6 years ago
If you answer this review i will appreciate it. I dont ask for Turkish translation, as the plugins supports spanish and some other langs then i ask about Turkish. Does the plugin support Turkish characters like ĞİÜÇŞıÖ ?
Muy útil!
by Elías·6 years ago
Previene problemas con tildes, así como homogeneiza los nombres de archivos que a veces se muestran en el frontend, como con el plugin WP Better Attachments.
Great!
by floydik·8 years ago
This plug-in do exactly what I except and there is no problem with Czech diacritics. If I was uploaded file name “příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.jpg” I’v got filename: /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/prilis-zlutoucky-kun-upel-dabelske-ody.jpg and Title příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.
Great job.
- This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by floydik.
Very nice! Only renames filename, not media title :)
by Bjarne Oldrup·8 years ago
As others, I need my filenames to be simple for plugins, backup, different OS’es etc to work without a hiccup, but my title I’d like left alone. So if I choose to upload a file called “Test æøå ÆØÅ +(plus) !(udråbstegn).txt”, I want a sane filename, but the original title where I insert the media… This plugin does that perfectly, where others also changes the title…
Tested with Danish letters, works great 🙂
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
94.4%
Other
5.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.4
- Changed priority for Gravity Forms integration.
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