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WP Sanitize Accented Uploads

Description

WordPress plugin which removes all accented characters like åöä from future uploads and has easy wp-cli command for removing accents from current uploads and attachment links from database.
This helps tremendously with current and future migrations of your site and helps you to avoid strange filename encoding bugs.

Sanitize accents from Cyrillic, German, French, Polish, Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, Greek, Swedish.
This even removes rare but possible unicode NFD characters from files by using PHP Normalizer class. These usually happen if you have mounted uploads into your vagrant box in OS-X.

This plugin is wordpress multisite compatible.

More information in github page: https://github.com/devgeniem/wp-sanitize-accented-uploads

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/wp-sanitize-accented-uploads directory, require it in composer $ composer require devgeniem/wp-sanitize-accented-uploads or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Settings->Plugin Name screen to configure the plugin

FAQ

Does this fix my uploads if my filenames have already been corrupted

No, sorry :(. You need to start using this before the problems arise in preventive way.

How to use wp-cli command

After the plugin installation and activation you can run $ wp sanitize all in terminal to sanitize all current files.

See $ wp sanitize --help for more.

Reviews

kɔnyasun 18, 2016
Really good plugin and does the job better than the others I tested. Supports the NextGEN Gallery too.
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Contributors & Developers

“WP Sanitize Accented Uploads” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.0.1

  • Replaces files which have accidentally turned into NFD too. First tries the filename found from DB and then tries NFD version of file name if it didn’t succeed.

1.0

  • Initial release which works in multisites too.