Title: Image 301 redirection
Last modified: March 2, 2020

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# Image 301 redirection

 *  Resolved [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/)
 * (@mykkal)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-301-redirection/)
 * Is it possible to 301 redirect changed image files? That way if media is renamed
   from its original filename it can be referenced by the old name.
 * We spend a lot of time optimizing past posts, media, and other parts of the site.
   Sometimes things are continually optimized even months after its been posted.
   Issue is that folks sharing the post on social media have the featured image 
   defined and that doesn’t change inside the social media just because it the filename
   is changed. The preview posts on social media are static and don’t update automatically.
 * Im thinking 301 redirection from the original filename would help this and also
   help with any lost SEO as there would no longer be 404 errors from the original
   filename.
 * I havent found a plugin that does that even though there are many redirection
   plugins. Maybe this should be built into media file renamer as a pro option?

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 *  Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/)
 * (@tigroumeow)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-301-redirection/#post-12501913)
 * Hi,
 * Redirection is a big task, so I can’t add this as a little “checkbox” feature,
   that would be actually something substantial behind it 🙂 I much prefer to ask
   my users to use a solid plugin that does this well (and in this case, the plugin“
   Redirection” does the job).
 * In the dashboard of the Renamer, you can export the list of old files and new
   files, and directly add this into Redirection. A lot of people do this. I heard
   that Redirection let you adding duplicates so that’s a little issue.
 * I could probably call the Redirection plugin directly from mine, that would be
   also an idea. I am not sure if it’s possible, as I didn’t study if Redirection
   has any function I can call yet.
 *  Thread Starter [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/)
 * (@mykkal)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-301-redirection/#post-12505229)
 * I’m sure it is. I don’t doubt this entire project has grown to be a lot more 
   than you previously imagined. I really want to thank you for what you have done.
 * Do you think it would be possible to work with the redirection plugin author 
   to create something that might do this automatically? You both are extremely 
   credible and trusted authors whom designed plugins with a high amount of distribution.
   Maybe you guys could create some APIs or hooks that talked to each other and 
   instantaneously solve this problem for us.
 * Truthfully we’ll all continue to take hits as we optimize image file names. Id
   be willing to pay a pro price for that fix. Its actually critical.
 *  Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/)
 * (@tigroumeow)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-301-redirection/#post-12505638)
 * I asked the author of the Redirection plugin for his help: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code).
   Let’s see where it goes from here 🙂

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