WP Sanitize Accented Uploads
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 filenam
About this tool.
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
Getting started.
- 01Upload 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.
- 02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- 03Use the Settings->Plugin Name screen to configure the plugin
Frequently asked questions.
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.
