Simple plugin which removes accented characters from uploaded files.
As of April 2026, WP Sanitize Accented Uploads is a WordPress files plugin with 800 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 12K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: File Manager Pro – Filester.
WordPress plugin which removes all accented characters like åöä from future uploads and has easy wp-cli command for removing accents from current uploads and attachment links from database.
This helps tremendously with current and future migrations of your site and helps you to avoid strange filename encoding bugs.
Sanitize accents from Cyrillic, German, French, Polish, Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, Greek, Swedish.
This even removes rare but possible unicode NFD characters from files by using PHP Normalizer class. These usually happen if you have mounted uploads into your vagrant box in OS-X.
This plugin is wordpress multisite compatible.
More information in github page: https://github.com/devgeniem/wp-sanitize-accented-uploads
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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