Amaury Balmer

Maxime Culea

BE API

<p>This plugin allows you to sanitize files on upload, which is pretty handy. It means all punctuation and accents from the filename of uploaded files will be removed.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>All accented letters will be converted to same letters without accent</li>
<li>Special characters will be deleted</li>
<li>Underscores will be replaced by hyphens</li>
</ul>
<h3>Warning For Mac Owners</h3>
<p>On MAC, you can also create an accented character with the combination of ` and the wanted letter. This has the effect to create a character with a special filename system encoding format which is not sanitized. An <a href="https://github.com/BeAPI/bea-sanitize-filename/issues/1" rel="nofollow ugc">issue</a> is already open about this.</p>
<h3>Who ?</h3>
<p>Created by <a href="https://beapi.fr" rel="nofollow ugc">Be API</a>, the French WordPress leader agency since 2009. Based in Paris, we are more than 30 people and always <a href="https://beapi.workable.com" rel="nofollow ugc">hiring</a> some fun and talented guys. So we will be pleased to work with you.</p>
<p>This plugin is only maintained, which means we do not guarantee some free support. Consider reporting an <a href="https://github.com/BeAPI/bea-sanitize-filename/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issue</a> and be patient.</p>
<p>To facilitate the process of submitting an issue and quicker answer, we only use Github, so don’t use WP.Org support, it will not be considered.</p>


BEA – Sanitize Filename

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Remove all punctuation and accents from the filename of uploaded files.

Samuel Aguilera

<h4>Features</h4>
<h4>It takes the following steps for getting cleaner and safe to use filenames</h4>
<ul>
<li>Removes or replace special/international characters that can make your filenames not compliant with servers that don’t have support for international locales and filenames, or third-party services. (e.g. ‘España.png’ will become ‘Espana.png’, ‘prüfen’ will become ‘prufen’).</li>
<li>Replaces any ‘+’ in the filename with ‘-‘ (e.g. ‘A+nice+picture.png’ will become ‘A-nice-picture.png’).</li>
<li>Replaces any ‘.’ character before the one used for file extension with ‘-‘(e.g. ‘A.nice.picture.png’ will become ‘A-nice-picture.png’).</li>
<li>After running all character replacement filters, a filter is applied to ensure that the filename only contains letters, numbers, underscores, dashes, and dots. Any other character will be removed from the filename.</li>
<li>And finally all letters in the filename are set to lowercase to prevent issues with case insensitive systems. </li>
</ul>
<p>This reduces problems with some servers, services, plugins… That may have problems handling filenames with special or international characters.</p>
<p>The plugin does its job during file upload process, so it’ll change only filenames for files being <em>uploaded after plugin activation</em>.</p>
<p>It supports a large number of international characters, including but not only, characters from belarusian, cyrillic alphabet, czech, german, hebrew, hungarian, russian, polish, spanish, ukrainian, and some other special characters (e.g. №, @, $, etc.).</p>
<p>If you have any questions or need support, please check FAQ for additional information before asking.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.0 or higher</li>
</ul>


Clean Filenames

Fix issues with some weird plugins and their stupid developers. Work as described except spaces in filename. The plugin just don't handle it correctly.

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Removes or replace international or special characters that can make your filenames not compliant with some servers or services.

BEA – Sanitize Filename vs Clean Filenames