File Renaming on Upload  is the premium version of the free file archiving plugin  with  some extra features making it more amazing.

The main purpose of this plugin is to fix problematic file uploads with accents or special characters. An essential plugin for non-English websites.

Additionally, it can improve your SEO by adding some relevant information to your file name, such as your domain name or the post title where your file is attached.

In addition to the features that will already be packaged in the free plugin,

check out the features available in this  premium version:

Manually edit file names and permalinks

WordPress doesn’t allow you to edit file names and permalinks natively. With this feature you are no longer limited to that.

Once you enable “ Change file name manually via dashboard ” and “Change permalink manually via dashboard ” options in plugin settings, there will be displayed the following metabox on the media file page.

Change it as you like, but you have to use a unique file name.

Note:  Renaming images will not update references to them. So if an image was attached as post content, you will need to update the posts using that image as well.

However, featured images or any images that are referenced by their IDs will not require any updates in their parent posts.

Update old media

Once this plugin is installed and activated you will no longer have upload issues with accents and special characters, but what if you or your client already have some buggy images uploaded before installing the plugin? Now you don’t have to worry anymore!

All you need to do is select them in the media library and choose  to update the file name  located in bulk actions.

Note:  After clicking the Apply button, you don’t need to stay on the same page waiting for the background process. You can browse normally.

Autocomplete ALT Tag

Once you upload images, their filenames will be registered as the ALT attribute. In other words, if you upload an image called My Cat.jpg it will automatically have its alt tag filled in as <img  alt=”My Cat”  />.

This feature can improve your SEO, so try to give your images descriptive names before uploading them.

Custom Field Rule

This is a new type of rule.

If you have a custom field in your post and upload an image, it will be renamed according to this custom field if you want.

A practical example:

1. Create a {cf:_myfield} rule
2. Create a custom field called  “_myfield”  for some post
3. Fill this field as “Test”
4. If you upload an image to this post, the image will be renamed according to the field value, so it will be called  test.jpg

New rules

New filename rules will always be implemented as the plugin is updated.

For now, in addition to the free rules, you will have

• User ID –  Gets the current user id
• User Role –  Gets the current role of the user
• Username –  Gets the name of the current user
• Product SKU –  Gets SKU of a WooCommerce product if possible
• Post Slug –  Stay post slug
• Post ID –  Receives post ID

Taxonomy rule

This is a new type of rule.

The file will be renamed according to the post terms of a specific taxonomy.

for example{tax:category}

Jpeg to JPG

Renames filename extension from jpeg to jpg.