Title: Clean Media Library File Names
Author: webdeveric
Published: <strong>May 9, 2014</strong>
Last modified: December 8, 2015

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# Clean Media Library File Names

 By [webdeveric](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdeveric/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/clean-media-library-file-names.0.3.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-media-library-file-names/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-media-library-file-names/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-media-library-file-names/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-media-library-file-names/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/clean-media-library-file-names/)

## Description

This plugin cleans uploaded file names to remove special characters and spaces.

## Installation

 1. Upload `clean-media-library-filenames` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. You’re done

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Clean Media Library File Names” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ webdeveric ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdeveric/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/clean-media-library-file-names/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/clean-media-library-file-names/),
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## Changelog

#### 0.3.1

 * Works with WordPress 4.4

#### 0.3

 * Added default file name when the sanitized file name is blank. This could happen
   when the file name contains only special characters.

#### 0.2

 * I updated the code to use the `sanitize_title_with_dashes` function instead of
   using my own regular expression.

#### 0.1

 * Initial build

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.0**
 * Tags
 * [filename](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/filename/)[media library](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-library/)
   [sanitize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sanitize/)[special characters](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/special-characters/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-media-library-file-names/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ webdeveric ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdeveric/)

## Support

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