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Best sanitize plugins for WordPress

The most popular sanitize plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Clean Image Filenames leads with 30K+ active installs, ahead of Filenames to latin (8K+) and Clean Filenames (3K+). All 19 plugins tagged “sanitize” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.

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Top 10 sanitize plugins

  1. 1.
    Clean Image Filenames

    The most installed sanitize plugin, with 30K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 21 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.

  2. 2.
    Filenames to latin

    8K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 14 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.

  3. 3.
    Clean Filenames

    3K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 8 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.

  4. 4.
    Upload SVG

    1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.

  5. 5.
    BEA

    1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 7 months ago.

  6. 6.
    WP Sanitize Accented Uploads

    800+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.

  7. 7.
    MD5 Media Renamer

    400+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.

  8. 8.
    Healthy filenames

    100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.

  9. 9.
    Space Remover

    100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.

  10. 10.
    LS Sanitize Greek Filename

    70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.

All 19 plugins tagged “sanitize”