SEO - Media File Name Updating

salon_sue

I've been asked to rename my images to better suit what they represent via keywords, for the purpose of SEO. However, I've noticed that modifying the media images name within WordPress doesn't in turn modify the actual stored image names generated by WordPress, which are used within the HTML. For example, I have a media jpg image titled "football". I need to rename this to "football-large-spotted". When I do this via the "football" media page,...

Originally asked by Ridai on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You would most likely need to use an plugin like Media File Renamer for that or change the image name before the upload.

Full answer by marvinpoo: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/228028 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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