Title: Replace upon upload
Last modified: December 14, 2023

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# Replace upon upload

 *  [fmh999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmh999/)
 * (@fmh999)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-upon-upload/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m a user of the Enable Media Replace plugin and find it incredibly useful. 
   For larger websites, replacing images one by one can be time-consuming. Could
   you consider adding a feature for bulk file replacement upon upload with the 
   same filename? It would greatly enhance efficiency.

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 *  Plugin Support [Gerard Blanco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sixaxis/)
 * (@sixaxis)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-upon-upload/#post-17283411)
 * Hi fmh999,
 * I’m not sure I understand your scenario. Could you please tell us step-by-step
   how it would work?
 * Thank you,
 *  Thread Starter [fmh999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmh999/)
 * (@fmh999)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-upon-upload/#post-17284140)
 * Hi Gerald,
 * Certainly! Instead of manually replacing images through the traditional method
   in the plugin (Replace Media -> Manually uploading the image), I envision a feature
   where if I upload an image named “109577.jpg” through the native WordPress upload,
   it would automatically overwrite/replace an existing image with the exact same
   name, “109577.jpg” through this plugin’s “Just replace the file” function.
 * I hope this clarifies the request. Please let me know if you have any questions.
 *  Plugin Support [Gerard Blanco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sixaxis/)
 * (@sixaxis)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-upon-upload/#post-17299305)
 * Thanks fmh999!
 * This sounds interesting, but difficult to implement, as that means that when 
   you upload an image, the plugin would have to scan every single image file, and
   that could be resource-intensive.
 * I will forward anyway the request to the developer team and if there’s any news
   I will let you know.
 * In any case, since this is a public & free plugin, we are very happy to review
   a Pull Request with such a feature on our public GitHub repository:
 * [https://github.com/short-pixel-optimizer/enable-media-replace/](https://github.com/short-pixel-optimizer/enable-media-replace/)
 * Thank you!
 *  [nickpish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickpish/)
 * (@nickpish)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-upon-upload/#post-17669079)
 * Hi Gerard, I have the same question as [@fmh999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmh999/),
   and I’m curious if you heard anything from the dev team? In my current project,
   the site will be used as a document repository with a large number of files, 
   and we’d like to keep the same filename and path for each document, but be able
   to replace files with newer versions by batch upload or drag and drop, rather
   than needing to select each individual media item and click “Replace”. I understand
   your point regarding potential demand on server resources, but if we could somehow
   enable the feature it would be great to test. Thanks!
 *  Plugin Support [Gerard Blanco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sixaxis/)
 * (@sixaxis)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-upon-upload/#post-17678867)
 * Hi nickpish,
 * No, sorry, there are no news from the dev team. We are fairly busy with other
   corrections and features for the plugin.
 * Like I mentioned, since this is a public & free plugin, we are always happy to
   review a Pull Request with such a feature on our public GitHub repository if 
   you’d like to speed things up!
 * [https://github.com/short-pixel-optimizer/enable-media-replace/](https://github.com/short-pixel-optimizer/enable-media-replace/)
 * Cheers!

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 * Last reply from: [Gerard Blanco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sixaxis/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-upon-upload/#post-17678867)
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