Huge Impact in Daily Workloads as a SEO - Plz add function to rename/clear/replace on upload also enable for Image Title, AltText, Description, Caption

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us here about this extension.

when uploading Images from Adobe Stock to WP, WPMedia only rename the Filename but not the Metas coming with Image.
There has to be an option that this Metas(Image Title, AltText, Description, Caption) has to clear and rename like on upload WPMediaFolder @ Filename does!

PLZ fix that fast u can it has a huge impact in daily usage as a SEO!

You can find the options in the WP Meta SEO plugin, with a click, you can duplicate a bunch of images at a time.

Please go here for more details:
https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-documentation/wp-meta-seo/339-wp-meta-seo-image-alternative-tag-title-name-size


Hope this helps!
Best Regards,

Thanks but this is not a solution for WP-Media-Folder to do that same time on upload like file rename does.
Plz include the function like i asked for.

To say i have to buy another plugin is not a solution for this problem..

Hi there, why does no one answer?

Another plugins does do that with no problems !

Look here:

https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-plus/

If JoomUnited will not give this standard feature to WPMedia folder i will cancel all my subscription got on your site and switch to another solutions.

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm sorry, but this is a feature not implemented, the rename feature applies on file name only, not on image title and Alt text.
I'll add that feature for a future release.

Cheers,

Thanks !

Hey there,

since 2021 there’s a problem with WP Media Folder. When I upload media files through the Media Library interface, files that already contain metadata are not renamed during the upload. There’s no option to override this behavior, and nowhere does it say that existing metadata will be preserved. That’s already a mistake. I reported this to you more than a year ago—maybe even two—and said it was a huge issue.

Now the problem goes even further. In Folder Sync there’s an explicit setting that lets you enable or disable importing existing metadata from the files. This option is disabled, yet Folder Sync still imports the metadata. So here’s another bug. I wonder who tests your systems.

This causes major problems overall. When I copy a site, every file has to be renamed. You do have a tool called WP Media SEO, but it doesn’t rename the actual file name; it only changes the slug. That’s also a problem. There’s no bulk action. We need a bulk-editing feature that, for example, lets us say, “If the site is copied, rename all files based on the new site name”—perhaps just a prefix or whatever definition we choose, the way bulk edits normally work.

In my case, all the files are still in the same folder, but they all need new names because the site name has changed. Or, if I download some files and upload them for another client, the metadata is always imported. What kind of logic is that? You offer a system that can automatically adjust metadata, yet embedded metadata is imported automatically. Where’s the logic? At the very least there should be a checkbox that says, “Yes, please import existing metadata.”

I’m not sure whether the FollowSync function is what’s causing this issue in my case. As I mentioned, I copied the site, and WP Media Folder had already renamed the file names correctly on the old website. I downloaded all the data, uploaded it to the new server via FTP, and then enabled FollowSync, assuming the file names would remain optimized as they were on the old site.

But what exactly does FollowSync do? I don’t really know. If FollowSync simply keeps the original file names—which would make no sense, because WP Media Folder is supposed to rename files on import, and that’s how I configured it—then maybe FollowSync isn’t renaming them, keeps the originals, and ends up writing the wrong metadata again.

The whole point is that, when I upload files, they should be renamed so I don’t have to do it manually later with WP Media SEO. For instance, WP Media SEO has a bulk action that writes metadata based on the file name—note: not the actual file name in the file system, but the media title. Great, but if I have 600 images whose titles I need to rename, where’s the bulk-editing function that lets me change those titles in one go? No one thought this through to the end. I don’t understand: if you’re already developing systems like this, you have to think everything through and implement it properly.

I wanted to leave this here because it’s extremely annoying. I’m currently working on a site with 600 images, and now I have to upload every image individually. It’s a huge amount of work and will take hours. I spent the whole day trying to fix it with PHP solutions. I only managed to overwrite the metadata during uploads to the Media Library, but as soon as I use Upload Folder, my PHP function stops working. I couldn’t get it to work, and what bothers me most is that Folder Sync doesn’t function as described. Please test your systems properly.

Thanks

sry got double clicked here something, and some text ki-mistakes..

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me with more information.

You're right - bulk metadata editing isn't available yet, but we'll consider adding it.
We'll also fix the issue where server imports still include metadata despite the setting being disabled.

Thanks for the detailed feedback.

Cheers,

Quoted from Assistance on Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Hi, Thanks for getting back to me with more information. You're right - bulk metadata editing isn't available yet, but we'll consider adding it.
We'll also fix the issue where server imports still include metadata despite the setting being disabled. Thanks for the detailed feedback. Cheers,

So after endless testing back and forth, I realized where the problem lies. Whether you upload entire folders via the media library's folder upload or transfer data using folder sync via FTP doesn't matter. The file name is always used, and the metadata is always generated based on the file name. And that completely contradicts how WP Media Folder is actually supposed to work—namely, by renaming the files during upload and then writing the metadata correctly. This is clearly a bug; nowhere, in my opinion, is this behavior documented. And if it is, well, I don't know—then I made a mistake. But I still can't understand, not even remotely, why it's like that.

Thanks