I’ve used this script to rename all files, but it doesn’t help as long as I can’t force rename them from the UI. You are also an extremely productive person with evangelical ideals of making every. Because of the encoding, the regex in the sensitivefileexists() function doesn’t match even though the filename in the database looks exactly like the real name of the file. So, here is how you can rename or replace the WP-Content folder to provide more security to your WordPress site. Once you add these lines, you will see all your uploaded themes, plugins and images will start using the new directory rather than a WP-Content folder. When you’re happy, just run it over all the selected files. If youre like me, you constantly move and rename files and directories. Step 4: Upload WP-Config.php file back to your server. When files are renamed, the references to it are also updated (posts, pages.
By combining them you can form quite complicated renaming rules – even more so if you conduct more than one pass over your filenames.īut the best feature is that you can click on any file in the file browser at the top half of the screen to preview instantly what the filename will be changed to after applying the current rules. It automatically renames your media filenames depending on their titles.
The bottom half of the screen shows various rules – numbered 1 to 14, which you can individually optionally enable. I began using a Windows computer in the 1980s, so my file names were constrained by the 8.3 file name a maximum of 8 characters for the base file name and 3. Also, we will see necessary examples and explanations to make the topic easier. The first one is working with a single file, and the second one is working with multiple files. Example: Rose-1.jpg Rose-2.jpg Rose-3.jpg Rose-4.jpg Thanks in advance. We are going to discuss two situations here. FileName IMG1001.jpg IMG1002.jpg IMG1003.jpg IMG1004.jpg It’s possible to rename the image file name by using its Title or Caption with auto increment numbering if Caption or Title found duplicate. The interface looks a bit scary at first, but actually it’s pretty logical when you get the hang of it. In this article, we will see how we can rename a file or a set of files by using a Batch script.
I considered writing a script to do it, but after a quick search of the internet came across a piece of software called Bulk Rename Utility which seemed to do the job really nicely.
The reason was that I had saved a series of video fragments from the middle of a much larger streaming video – so the fragment number of each filename was a sequence that started from about 1000, whereas the script I described in a previous post to join Adobe streaming fragments together needs fragments to be numbered sequentially from 1. The entire selected files will now be renamed within the layout IMG1, IMG2, IMG3, etc.
I recently found myself needing to rename around 100 files. As soon as all thats done, quite simply click on Rename.