Enable Media Replace

What the author says it does

A free, lightweight and easy to use plugin that allows you to seamlessly replace an image or file in your Media Library by uploading a new file in its place. No more deleting, renaming and re-uploading files! Now fully compatible with WP Offload Media!

New beta feature! You can now remove the background of your images for better integration with eCommerce solutions!

Supported by the friendly team that created ShortPixel 🙂

A real timesaver

Don’t you find it tedious and complicated to first delete a file and then upload another one with the exact same name every time you want to update an image or other uploaded file in the WordPress media library?

Well, no longer!

Now you can replace any uploaded file in the Edit Media view, where it should be. Replacing Media can be done in two ways:

It’s simple to replace a file

• Simply replace the file. This option requires you to upload a file of the same type as the file you want to replace. The attachment name remains the same regardless of what the file you upload is called.

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

Latest changelog entry

4.2.3

Release date: October 26, 2026

* Fix: Hardened the database replacements against a possible PHP Object Injection, which could be exploited under certain conditions, safely disclosed by the Wordfence, PatchStack and WPScan teams;

* Fix: Users with the Author role now only see the standard replace option; renaming, changing the location and background removal are limited to Editors and above, following a security report from the Wordfence team;