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Hey guys,
we are two devs who built a free & open source image renaming plugin (GPLv2): neoRename
- WP Plugin Directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/neo-rename/
- Code on GitHub: https://github.com/neo-wp/neowp-plugins
- neoRename Plugin Website: https://neo-wp.com/plugin/neo-rename/
Image references can live in post content, metadata, serialized options, page builder data, WooCommerce fields, custom tables. Updating only attachment metadata or post content is often not enough.
So we built a small free/open-source plugin that tries to solve this by scanning broadly and updating references where the old filename appears, including serialized data.
We wanted it to be beautiful, simple, fast, free & open source. There is a Pro version, but the free version is fully usable and does not hard-push upsells.
I’m mainly looking for technical feedback:
- Would you trust a broad database update approach for this?
- What do you think about the usability of the plugin?
- Anything missing?
(I’ve checked the subreddit rules and hope this kind of useful OSS project is ok to share. I genuinely believe that the plugin is really useful.)