Healing links in markup to outdated media filenames is great. Redirect on top?
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Media File Renamer Settings > Tab “Basic” > Section “Side Updates”
When the files are renamed, many links to them on your WordPress might be broken. Those options are updating the references to those files.
For: ☑︎ Posts ☑︎ Excerpts ☑︎ Post Meta ☑︎ Elementor1) “Side Updates” possibly is a typo?
- Intended name being “Site Updates” (as in “Web Site”)?
- Or maybe intentionally as in “Side effect” of the file renaming is to also update the markup?
2) Now on the topic itself: Praise! Great feature! 👍
a) Glad that I finally discovered a plugin that heals the root cause: Correcting the outdated media URLs in the markup of the respective posts rather than just doctoring around with redirections.
Redirections are a legit method to cope with incoming external deeplinks to outdated media filenames. To not loose your link juice SEO.
But for incoming internal links they are the wrong medicine. There will always be a redirection from old-file-name.jpg to new-file-name.jpg as long as you don’t treat the root cause, being the outdated internal links. This extra HTTP call for each affected media file slows down unnecessarily.
Healing the root cause is the correct medicine. And the root cause are outdated links in the markup of your own posts. That should be a core feature of any CMS. All wikis I know of do this since the early 2000ies. WordPress not to this day. The link is the core of the www so to speak. Strange why this had no priority.
3) Similar topic: I submitted this UX design proposal
When changing a slug offer options to update internal incoming links
That was for slug changes. No reaction so far. Maybe interesting for you to follow.4) Anyways: Glad that at least for renaming media files I know have an automatic link healing solution with your plugin. Thank you!
a) Adding a redirection to also handle incoming external deeplinks which may used the old filename could theoretically be added on top of this measure.
b) Does your plugin do that? I saw no indications for this.
c) Would your plugin interfere with any other plugins such as Broken Link Checker or Redirection which possibly detect a media file name change and set up a redirection from old-name.jpg to new-name.jpg ? (Am not sure whether they act only on post/page-slugs and media-slugs, or also really on changed media filenames and set up a redirection for this. Possible not as by normal means in WordPress a filename once uploaded is frozen, at most you edit its media-slug)
Curious to know! And thanks again for the plugin!
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