A super simple plugin for uploaded file name sanitization.
As of April 2026, SEO File Renamer is a WordPress seo plugin with 0 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 971 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.1.0+ and PHP 5.6.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
This is a super simple plugin for uploaded file name sanitization.
Essentially, it’s to make your uploaded filenames easier for search engines to read, hence better for SEO, nicer to look at in the folder (who cares?), and should also help avoid any issues with naming conventions.
You might be thinking that WordPress does a good enough job at renaming, but it still allows underscores and other symbols and characters that maybe don’t belong in a filename.
e.g.
This: Æ, %20 æ Ï, Ö, Ü, Ÿ-boyz_%20__=++&, ©, §)+Ţ ţ++‰+ath-club-ÆØÅæøå–.pdf
Becomes: AE-20-ae-I-O-U-Y-boyz-20-T-tath-club-AEOAaeoa.pdf
This: —-___——]- hair space U+200A.jpg
becomes: hair-space-U200A.jpg
The Original idea for this was done by Vaughn Royko and so we thought we would turn this int…
| WordPress | 5.1.0+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | 5.6.0+ required |
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