Title: Seo File Names Author: Cedric Moris Kelly Published: November 13, 2021 Last modified: March 20, 2022 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/seo-file-names/assets/icon.svg?rev=2629165) # Seo File Names By [Cedric Moris Kelly](https://profiles.wordpress.org/afterglow22/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-file-names.0.9.35.zip) * [Details](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/seo-file-names/#description) * [Reviews](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/seo-file-names/#reviews) * [Development](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/seo-file-names/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/) ## Description **Goal of Seo File Names** * Seo File Names aims to save you time and boost your SEO by automatically renaming the files you upload to the media library with SEO friendly names. * This is often overlooked by website authors whereas search engines also rely on file names to understand and index them. * It also happens to me very often that clients ask me to upload many images and documents to their website. This plugin has saved me a lot of time by removing the automatic renaming software step (and license fees) before importing the files. **How does Seo File Names works?** * When you upload a file to the media library, Seo File Names gathers datas from the post, page or term you are currently editing: _title, slug, category, tag or taxonomy, type, dates, author…_ * …plus the global site datas: _site name and site description_, useful to reinforce your brand. * With this datas, you build the file names using the predefined tags. * You can insert arbitrary text between each tag. * The arbitrary text can only contain the characters [a-z], [0-9], space and ‘-‘. * Special characters, accented characters and capital letters will be filtered out. * Each part of the file name will be separated from the others by dashes if they are not. ### Contribute * You can contribute to Seo File Names through Github by creating a pull request [Github repository](https://github.com/AfterglowWeb/afg-seo-file-names/) * If you are interested in further collaboration, just [leave me a message on this page](https://afterglow-web.agency). ## Screenshots * [[ * Administration page of Seo File Names * [[ * Set users who will use Seo File Names * [[ * Temporarly pause Seo File Names * [[ * Result on a file name ## FAQ ### First Time Using **By default Seo File Names is paused.** * Go to Seo File Names settings page in Settings > Seo File Names * Select your users, set your file naming scheme, disable pause and save. * If no scheme is defined, the default file naming scheme used to rewrite your filenames is {site name}-{site description}-{original filename}. ### Settings * You can pause Seo File Names anytime by going to Settings > Seo File Names and enabling pause option. It is much better than disabling it. * You can of course update your file naming scheme whenever you like. Remember to use it according to your batch sessions. ### What is the best way to use Seo File Names * Seo File Names works best when adding files to the media library while editing articles, pages or terms, as it uses the datas being edited. * If you upload files directly from the media library page, generic tags are processed( site name, site description, original file name), others are ignored. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8ffbb1e2a291a6d97f18d0d1f1d537cbda31f17489293ead6986a21514714af6? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Some suggestions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-suggestions-70/)󠁿 [Alex 六十 Karpov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/justsmilepeople/) November 2, 2022 Looks like exact what SEO needs Extra feature suggestions: – Add preview – Add CPT( For post types with several categories at once)` ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bdc75c86708362108f80dd696a237380448eb4f8cdb85ff1ab4da1c86d03dbec? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Only Upload, Only Post-Title, Not working for Upload in Media-Library](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-upload-only-post-title-not-working-for-upload-in-media-library/)󠁿 [Skrabbel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/skrabbel/) July 20, 2022 1 reply This plugin says in the description: “renaming the files you upload to the media library with SEO friendly names”. Unfortunately, this is not the case, the file names are only overwritten if you don’t upload the images directly to the media database, but rather to the post. The data from the attachment is not used either, but from the post. So you have – and that’s very bad for SEO – not just one image with the file name, but several. 3 stars because it runs well and does what it shouldn’t do for SEO 😉 The plugin has potential. It would just have to use the attachment data from the media database and update the file name when the data in the media database changes. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2be18dccd8afe76200103ba6d14b331d22c22f879f80c0c9c1761966525de44a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Perfect SEO Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-seo-plugin-31/)󠁿 [graffikweb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/graffikweb/) November 22, 2021 Easy to use and very useful for improving our SEO. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5d6cd7984de4b230a3a11532689e7842512a127754d1bf40d42ed3e199dcda49? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very useful for SEO](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-for-seo/)󠁿 [YESMan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yesdesign/) November 15, 2021 1 reply I love this plugin when planning lots of posts in advance. I don’t have to think about the image name anymore, it gets automatically changed when uploaded to the library. I can choose the format, I generally put %blogname%-%slug% or just %slug% but you can use many other variables. Great tool [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Seo File Names” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Cedric Moris Kelly ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/afterglow22/) “Seo File Names” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/seo-file-names/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Seo File Names” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/seo-file-names) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-file-names/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/seo-file-names/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/seo-file-names/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/seo-file-names/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.9.35 Tested up to WordPress 5.9.2 #### 0.9.34 Bug fix: asf_preGetslug function removed as conflicting with other plugins #### 0.9.33 New feature: users selection field #### 0.9.32 Full support for PHP 7.2.0 #### 0.9.31 Deactivate SEO File Names if PHP version is lower than 7.3.0 #### 0.9.3 Major security fixes after 1st WordPress Plugin Directory team review. Class asf_Sanitize added. #### 0.9.21 Bug fix on multiple tabs opened. #### 0.9.2 Datas without saving : full support for classic editor. #### 0.9.1 First public realease. ## Meta * Version **0.9.35** * Last updated **4 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 4.9.18 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.9.13** * PHP version ** 7.2 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-file-names/) and [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/seo-file-names/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/seo-file-names) * Tags * [file](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/file/)[filename](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/filename/) [filenames](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/filenames/)[files](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/files/) [seo](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) * [Advanced View](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/seo-file-names/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.5 out of 5 stars. * [ 3 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-file-names/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Cedric Moris Kelly ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/afterglow22/) ## Support Got something to say? 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