Rating: 3 stars
Better than not having it all…. Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it goes through all the motions but doesn’t actually replace image, sometimes it seems to forget to regenerate thumbnails. Can’t find any rhyme or reason to it. I’ve had this same experience across many different sites over the years.
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I install this plugin by default on all of my sites. Just one of those ‘set it and forget it’ plugins that tend to forget is even there since it feels like it should just be part of WP core. Really nice way to avoid a bloated media library with final.jpg, final-1.jpg, final-2.jpg, really-final.jpg, final-for-real-this-time.jpg, etc.
Also comes in very handy with files such as PDFs that might get indexed and appear highly in search results. This avoids that situation where you update a policy doc or something like that, but everyone keeps accessing the old version via Google.
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I had dozens of images to replace and this made it sooooooo much faster! Those of us who spend hours in front of a computer making websites every day appreciate timesavers.
I am very cautious about adding new plugins because they can cause issues, so I only use a few. But I added this one and I’m glad I did. It also seems to be updated by the programmers fairly often, which gives me confidence. So far, no problems, only benefits. If that changes, I’ll change my review ??
Note: It would be cool if they added a feature that automatically deleted the image you’re replacing, even if you give the new one a different name. That would save even more time!
Rating: 4 stars
Works great except as per below.
Rating: 5 stars
This plugin was a real life saver. I replaced hundreds of oversized images on a large, old website with it. This plugin worked perfectly every time.
(To find the largest images on the website I also installed the plugin ‘Media Library File Size‘ to sort images by file size.)
Rating: 1 star
Whatever they did to their code base, it isnt working on both local and production site. The support is not really helpful (just random guesses).
Too bad, it was the number one replacement plugin but there are alternatives now which work without any problems.
Rating: 5 stars
This plugins provides what seems like such essential functionality that I hope Core adopts it. Until then, Enable Media Replace it is. The plugin developers are responsive to needs, requests, and issues.
Thanks for a great plugin!
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Very useful plugin.
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It’ll look like it’s replacing the image but no matter how many times I go through every step, purge caches, refresh the page, etc. When it’s done, it’ll still be the original image.
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It does exactly what it’s supposed to
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I replaced my images with new ones but the old ones were still present both in the media library and the frontend. Looking at other reviews it seems this is common.
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So far, this plug-in seems to be working well enough for us on a self-installed/self-managed server.
I am concerned by the inclusion of unrelated functionality, specifically the beta image background removal by sending the file through their servers. (I understand including the core of their thumbnail regeneration… you would of course want a new thumbnail for a replaced image.) Background removal sounds useful, but please make it its own plug-in. The more a plug-in does, the more of an attack surface it has and the more work I have to do to try to figure out whether we can trust it on our server.
I saw a comment in the plugin file saying you can define the EMR_CAPABILITY constant in your own wp-config.php which (if set — they suggest edit_upload_all and/or edit_upload_user) restricts the plugin’s use to users with a specific capability. This is not mentioned in the install instructions and probably should be. It appears that without setting this constant, any user with the upload_file capability will be able to use this plugin.
Not at all saying this is a problem, but it should, I think, be better documented. (Perhaps I will send a PR through GitHub if I need to clone it to get rid of the background removal code.)
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Doesn’t work. still have to delete rename and re-upload images. Useless plugin. Thanks for nothing
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Enable Media Replace is Perfect
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this plugin is great but on my Farse website, when I select replace media from media library, the layout breaks and after choosing file nothing happens. They have to investigate this issue in Farsi languages
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Stop pushing image optimizer. My images are not large.
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All the recommended action about cache I have tried.
I use WP 6.1.1 and the theme Astra plus
Upon further investigation, I found the following errors:
It only works if both images have the same dimensions.
In my test with different aspect ratios, images with different labels are created. The links with the old names will then no longer work
Rating: 5 stars
Very handy addition to the media library. I advise making a backup before using it, just in case. Up until now, it worked without a hitch.
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Small, fast and almost invisible – means: it cooperates perfectly with WP and a lot of changing configurations, updates and plugins. I will keep it as long as possible.
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I wish there is media rename function too.
This plugin is able to do much better, it should be easy to rename media files for developers
Rating: 5 stars
Used to be good on all sites (single install and multisites) now does not work at all on any WP install type. With newer versions of WP it somehow got left behind. You should find out what’s changed in the WP core and adjust your code accordingly. Right now this plugin is completely useless!
Deleting and looking elsewhere until fixed.
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I would so love for this plugin to work!
I think I’m doing everything right in the upload etc, and when it switches to the image edit page, the correct image is displayed – until I hit Update! Then it reverts to the old image!
Got 50 of these to do, so will breathlessly await your reply!
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Good plugin, very handy.
EDIT: Initially, I had an error when replacing an image with a different name and filetype divi. I fixed the issue with re-placing the image. When trying to reproduce the error, I failed – whatever was wrong, was most likely something else than this plugin.
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Thanks to the developers for such a convenient and useful plugin! Just a brilliant plugin!!! Replaced about 2000 images without problems and glitches
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I like this plugin – very useful. It saves me a lot of time.
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Its a really good plugin
At first, it didnt work because of cache issue, now its everything ok.
Great suport
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Plugin don’t work with my latest WP.
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very useful when you only need to change files
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It’s save a lot of my time and easy to use the plugin. Continue the great job!
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Does exactly what it’s advertised to do. Easy and simple to use.
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