Clean Filenames for WordPress Plugin Directory
Clean Filenames is a WordPress app, with a 4.6 average rating from 8 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Clean Filenames is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Samuel Aguilera. With a rating of 4.6★ from 8 reviews.
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Clean Filenames is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 8 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.6★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Samuel Aguilera — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (8) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Clean Filenames works
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Features It takes the following steps for getting cleaner and safe to use filenames
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’).
Replaces any ‘+’ in the filename with ‘-‘ (e.g. ‘A+nice+picture.png’ will become ‘A-nice-picture.png’).
Replaces any ‘.’ character before the one used for file extension with ‘-‘(e.g. ‘A.nice.picture.png’ will become ‘A-nice-picture.png’).
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.
And finally all letters in the filename are set to lowercase to prevent issues with case insensitive systems.
This reduces problems with some servers, services, plugins… That may have problems handling filenames with special or international characters.
The plugin does its job during file upload process, so it’ll change only filenames for files being uploaded after plugin activation.
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.).
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Requirements
WordPress 3.0 or higher
Keyword rankings
Clean Filenames ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
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Frequently asked questions
What is Clean Filenames?
Clean Filenames is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.6-star rating from 8 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Samuel Aguilera.