Smart, automatic media renaming for WordPress.

Media File Renamer renames your files based on titles, ALT text, or even AI vision, automatically or manually. All references across your site are updated instantly. Great for SEO, great for sanity. 📸

Thanks to AI Engine and MCP, your AI assistant can look at your images and fill in proper titles and ALT texts while you sip your coffee. Turn on Attachment Update in the settings, and Media File Renamer gives each file a matching name. ✨

40,000+ active installs
4.6 average rating
447 reviews
on WordPress.org

AI Vision Renaming

AI analyzes your images and suggests intelligent, descriptive filenames based on actual content.

Auto-Rename on Upload

New uploads are renamed instantly based on title, ALT text, post title, or AI vision.

Cascading Methods

Chain multiple rename strategies with automatic fallback. Title, ALT, post, or AI, in the order you choose.

Full Reference Update

All references across posts, metadata, and page builders are updated automatically when files are renamed.

Lock, Undo, and Preview

Lock renamed files, undo mistakes, and preview every change before applying.

Move Files Too

Reorganize uploads into better folders, with every reference updated.

How Media File Renamer works

IMG_4471.jpg tells Google nothing, tells a screen reader nothing, and tells you nothing two years later. Media File Renamer fixes the name and everything that points to it.

  • References followPosts, pages and metadata are updated, with retina, WebP, scaled originals and PDF thumbnails.
  • AI VisionIt looks at the photo and suggests a name, a title, an ALT text and a caption.
  • At your paceFilter Pending, Never Renamed or Locked, then rename one file or the whole library.
  • Lock and UndoLock the files you named on purpose, and undo any rename.

Back up first, and rename a few files before you rename eight thousand. Some page builders store image references in a form no plugin can rewrite. If one goes stale, clear your cache, and Undo puts the original names back.

Needs WordPress 6.0 and PHP 8.1 or newer. The AI features need AI Engine (free).

Free & Pro Versions

Free Version

  • Auto-Rename

    Automatically rename media files based on their title or ALT text.

  • Manual-Rename

    Edit filenames directly from the Media Library, Edit screen, or Renamer Dashboard.

  • AI Suggestions

    Receive smart renaming suggestions by analyzing metadata.

  • Lock & Unlock

    Prevent unwanted changes to specific media entries with simple lock/unlock options.

  • Undo Button

    Easily revert to previous filenames if needed. No stress, no hassle.

  • Developer-Friendly

    Tweak renaming behavior with filters, actions, and custom triggers.

Pro Version

  • Everything from the Free Version

  • Vision AI

    AI analyzes image content for even better renaming suggestions.

  • Advanced Transliteration

    Handles complex renaming cases with robust support for various languages and encodings.

  • Enhanced Auto Methods

    Use the attached post title, an ACF field or an anonymized name for smarter auto-renaming.

  • Numbered Filenames

    Avoid duplicates by appending and incrementing numbers to filenames.

  • SQL Logging

    Track and log every rename operation for transparency and rollback purposes.

  • Metadata Sync

    Keep your filenames, ALT text, and titles perfectly aligned with automatic synchronization

    • Get Pro, from $39/year

Screenshots

Media File Renamer — Dashboard

Reviews from WordPress

Written by @reynardt on WordPress Forums

Cherry on top!

A must-have add-on the Meow set of tools. There’s enough work as it is, now you can put file renaming on autopilot. More time for drinking beer too.

Written by @donaldjenkins on WordPress Forums

Seriously impressive tool

Like everything this developer does, nothing here has been left to chance. Providing the user takes necessary precautions and the trouble to understand what he is doing (indispensable with any powerful tool), this plugin can be used to tidy up image file names consistently and reliably, a task that is notoriously difficult to achieve.

Written by @dahmaniadame on WordPress Forums

Makes a tedious task a breeze

The best I’ve used so far to rename files with more descriptive names. The free version does a great job even if it’s limited to using the media title.

Written by @crucoiderz on WordPress Forums

Saving me so much time!

I was having headache of having bad names on the file names that uploaded in my websites, and this was keep me frustrated because I need to rename every single time. But, with this problem, I found that this plugin saving me so much time because I don’t need to care the filename anymore, I can just upload my images and media file renamed will do its job! It is just as simple like that!