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, rename them properly and fill in titles and ALT texts while you sip your coffee. ✨

Media File Renamer — Dashboard
40,000+ active installs
4.6 average rating
444 reviews

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 — your priority.

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

WordPress keeps whatever filename your camera or phone gave a photo. IMG_4471.jpg tells Google nothing, tells a screen reader nothing, and tells you nothing when you are hunting for it two years later in a library of eight thousand files.

Media File Renamer fixes the name and everything attached to it. Rename a file and the plugin rewrites every reference to it across your posts, pages and metadata, so nothing breaks. It handles the awkward cases too: retina and WebP variants, the re-scaled originals WordPress has generated since 5.3, PDF thumbnails, and UTF-8 filenames.

The AI Vision option goes further than tidying. It looks at the image itself and proposes a filename that describes what is actually in the picture, then offers to fill in the Title, ALT text, caption and description to match. That turns a renaming tool into an accessibility and SEO pass, done in bulk rather than one attachment at a time.

Work through your library however suits you: filter by Pending, Never Renamed or Locked, rename one file at a time while you build trust, or run the whole library at once. The lock system exists for the files you have already named deliberately, and can auto-lock anything after a rename so it is never touched again.

Back up first, and rename a few files before you rename eight thousand. Some page builders store image references in encrypted or encoded form, which no plugin can rewrite. If a reference does go stale, clear your cache first, and the Undo feature will put the original filenames back.

Free & Pro Versions

Free Version

  • Auto-Rename

    Automatically rename media files when their titles are updated.

  • 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 ALT text, anonymization, attached post titles, and more 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

  • Visit the Pro Version

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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!