Media Rename — OrbitStem renames images, PDFs and any other media files without breaking your site. Every feature is free — no Pro version, no ads.

Before you rename, you see where the file is used, every file that will change (all thumbnail sizes, the original of large photos, WebP/AVIF copies) and, if you want, the exact database rows that will be updated. After the rename, links are updated across posts, custom fields, page builders and settings, the old URLs redirect with a 301, and you can undo at any time.

Rename

Rename panel in the Media Library and on the attachment edit screen, with quick suggestions from the title, alt text or post, an SEO score, and a usage report
Every file renamed together — main file, all sizes, the pre-scaled original of large photos (-scaled), and WebP/AVIF copies made by optimisation plugins
Move to another folder inside uploads, with links and redirects updated
Lock files so bulk and automatic renames never touch them
Show exact changes — a dry run that lists every database row a rename will update

Bulk and automatic

Filename audit — finds camera names (IMG_1234, DSC_, PXL_), screenshots, random hashes, numbers-only and non-Latin names, suggests better names, and fixes them in bulk
Bulk rename with templates: {post-title}, {attachment-title}, {counter:3}, {sku}, {product}, {category}, {date}, {uuid} and more — the preview shows exactly the names that will be used
Rename a post’s images from the post, page or WooCommerce product editor (featured image, content images, gallery and variation images)
Rename when the title changes (optional)
Auto-rename on upload — transliterate non-Latin names (Москва moskva, 東京 dong-jing), lowercase, hyphens, strip camera codes, dates, hashes and stopwords, add a prefix; also for URL imports and importers. Off until you turn it on
Metadata sync — set the title, alt text and caption from the file name, only when they are empty or generic, or always
Background jobs — bulk renames run in small steps, continue with WP-Cron if you close the page, and resume safely after a timeout. On large sites a single rename also updates links in the background, with a progress bar

Safety

Automatic 301 redirects for every renamed file and size, stored in their own table, with hit counts
History of every rename, with undo for a single file or a whole bulk job, and CSV export
Repair tool finds links to old file names left behind (for example content added later) and fixes them
Page builders and caches — Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Breakdance, Beaver Builder, Gutenberg; WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3TC, WP Super Cache, Cloudflare, SiteGround, Nginx Helper and more
WP Offload Media — offloaded files are detected and protected from renames that would break them

For developers

WP-CLI: wp orbitstem rename, bulk, audit, undo, repair (with --dry-run)
REST API: orbitstem/v1/media/{id}/rename, /preview, /undo, /lock
Actions: orbitstem_after_rename, orbitstem_after_rollback, orbitstem_after_content_sync, orbitstem_purge_urls
Filters: orbitstem_rename_capability, orbitstem_allow_editors_to_rename, orbitstem_rename_blocked_reason, orbitstem_content_sync_pairs, orbitstem_url_hosts, orbitstem_extra_tables, orbitstem_single_sync_budget, orbitstem_show_post_images_box

WordPress Playground

Try it in your browser: https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pratik2198/orbitstem-media-rename/trunk/blueprint.json

Privacy

This plugin does not contact external servers, track users, or collect personal data.

Also from the developer: Orbitstem SEO

Orbitstem SEO is a free SEO plugin built with the same care: titles, descriptions, XML sitemaps, a schema builder, content analysis, Google Search Console data inside WordPress, automatic 301 redirects when a page address changes, IndexNow instant indexing, crawl and indexing diagnostics, a scan for broken links and redirect chains, and repairs you can preview and undo. It can import your settings from Yoast, Rank Math or All in One SEO. The two plugins work independently; together, both your media file names and your page addresses can change without breaking links.