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Enable Media Replace
Saves you endless clicking until it silently refuses to cooperate.
HealthyGrowing
84/100
This essential utility saves time but occasionally fails silently or breaks specific page builders.
Active installs
~650,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 600k+
Rating
4.4★
300 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+329%
Growing fast
945 → 4,051 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +329% in the last year
945/day a year ago→4,051/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayEnable Media Replace is a well-regarded utility plugin for replacing media files in WordPress without breaking links, valued for being a genuine time-saver, but a recurring silent-failure bug and a long-standing Bricks Builder compatibility issue undermine its reliability for some users.
What people like
- +Saves significant time when updating images or files (e.g. PDFs) across a site without needing to re-link them everywhere×5
- +Keeps the media library clean by avoiding duplicate versioned filenames×2
- +Described as simple and unobtrusive — feels like it should be part of WordPress core×3
- +Regularly updated, giving users confidence in ongoing maintenance
Common complaints
- −Silent replacement failure: the plugin appears to complete successfully but the original file remains unchanged, with no clear error×3
- −Inconsistent behavior — sometimes works perfectly, sometimes skips the actual replacement or fails to regenerate thumbnails, with no predictable pattern
- −Long-standing, unresolved compatibility issue with Bricks Builder that can break pages, acknowledged but not fixed after over a year
- −Will not replace a file if the new filename is identical to the existing one; requires a different filename and the 'update all links' option to work
- −Support described as unhelpful, offering only random guesses rather than substantive fixes
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.16★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 300 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-06★★★★★The best tool ever and still freeKlaus Wilde
- 2025-11-22★★★★★useful for batch replacing via media library on latest wordpressplatinumshore
- 2025-11-19★★★★★Used everywhere !!Ferdy S
- 2025-09-09★★★★★Has major Bricks Builder integration issueLbch
- 2025-06-23★★★★★Wonderful, thanks so muchjonathanedwardmann
- 2025-04-24★★★★★A necessitymyracat
- 2025-04-07★★★★★Perfect solutionTMTRT
- 2025-03-09★★★★★A great time saver when it works!Z
- 2025-01-12★★★★★Very easyphoenix36
- 2024-11-30★★★★★Thank youMara-z
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
4,253
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
4,682
Prior 7-day baseline
2,292
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
15,939
Mean release-day peak (30d)
4,253
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-9.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.34
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
74%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-75%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.16 → 4.16★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered