AI-powered ALT text, captions, and image descriptions. Boost SEO, improve accessibility, and support 100+ languages, automatically.

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<h3>🤖 AI-Powered Image SEO for WordPress</h3>
<p><strong>⚡ Automatically generate ALT text, captions, titles, and descriptions for every image on your site — powered by AI, in seconds.</strong></p>
<p>Poor or missing image SEO data hurts your SEO rankings, degrades accessibility, and costs you visitors. The <a href="https://shortpixel.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ShortPixel AI Alt Text Generator</a> solves all of this in one lightweight, install-and-forget WordPress plugin.</p>
<p>Whether you’re running a blog, an online store, or a large media-heavy website, this plugin analyses your images with AI and generates accurate, SEO-optimised image data, automatically on upload, or in bulk for your entire library.</p>
<h3>💡 Why ShortPixel AI Alt Text Generator?</h3>
<h3>🧠 AI-Powered Image SEO</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatically generate ALT tags</strong> – The AI analyses each image and writes a relevant, descriptive ALT text, improving both SEO and screen-reader accessibility.</li>
<li><strong>Generate image captions</strong> – Create human-readable captions for every image without any manual effort.</li>
<li><strong>Generate image descriptions</strong> – Produce rich, contextual descriptions stored in WordPress’s native description field.</li>
<li><strong>Update image titles with SEO-friendly ones</strong> – Automatically replace generic image titles with SEO-friendly alternatives.</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚙️ Smart Settings & Control</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Generate image SEO data on upload</strong> – Automatically trigger AI generation the moment an image is uploaded to your Media Library, based on your configured settings.</li>
<li><strong>Preserve existing Image SEO data</strong> – When enabled, all existing ALT tags, captions, and descriptions are retained. Disabling this option allows AI-generated data to overwrite existing metadata.</li>
<li><strong>Use parent Post / Page title for image SEO data</strong> – Optionally pass the title of the image’s parent post or page to the AI model for more accurate, context-aware results.</li>
<li><strong>General site context</strong> – Provide a detailed description of your website to give the AI model additional context, resulting in more relevant and targeted metadata.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌍 Multilingual Support</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>100+ languages supported</strong> – Select the output language for all generated metadata. The AI will produce ALT texts, captions, and descriptions in the language of your choice, making it ideal for multilingual websites.</li>
</ul>
<h3>📦 Bulk Mode</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Generate AI Image SEO in bulk for your entire library</strong> – Process all images in your WordPress Media Library at once.</li>
<li><strong>Preview mode</strong> – Test and fine-tune AI results before applying new ALT texts and descriptions in bulk. Review what the AI generates for a sample of images before committing to a full library update.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🛒 WooCommerce Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Seamless support for WooCommerce product images.</li>
<li>AI-generated ALT text and descriptions for product gallery images improve product discoverability in search engines.</li>
</ul>
<h3>♿ Accessibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improve website accessibility by ensuring all images have properly generated ALT text and metadata.</li>
<li>Helps your website comply with WCAG accessibility guidelines.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to ShortPixel services to validate your API key, check your available quota, generate AI-based image SEO data, and optionally create a ShortPixel account or send deactivation feedback when you choose those actions.</p>
<h4>ShortPixel API and AI service</h4>
<p>Service: <code>https://api.shortpixel.com/</code> and <code>https://capi-gpt.shortpixel.com/</code></p>
<p>Used for: validating your API key, checking available quota, and generating AI image SEO data such as ALT text, captions, titles, and descriptions.</p>
<p>Data sent:</p>
<ul>
<li>Your ShortPixel API key</li>
<li>The plugin version, and during API key validation the WordPress and PHP versions</li>
<li>A plugin source identifier used by ShortPixel to route plugin-originated AI requests</li>
<li>The image URL that should be analyzed</li>
<li>The ShortPixel remote request ID when retrieving generated results</li>
<li>The generation settings you selected, such as requested fields, selected language, retry flag, and optional site context / parent title data when enabled</li>
<li>For API key validation and quota checks, the site URL, site host/domain, and, when configured by the site owner, HTTP authentication credentials needed to access protected images</li>
</ul>
<p>When sent:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you save or validate an API key</li>
<li>When the plugin refreshes account/quota data needed to operate</li>
<li>When you manually request AI generation, enable automatic generation on upload, or run bulk generation</li>
</ul>
<p>Why it is needed:</p>
<ul>
<li>The plugin cannot validate your account or generate AI-based image SEO data without contacting ShortPixel’s remote services</li>
</ul>
<h4>ShortPixel account sign-up service</h4>
<p>Service: <code>https://shortpixel.com/free-sign-up-plugin</code></p>
<p>Used for: creating a ShortPixel account and issuing an API key when you explicitly request one from the plugin.</p>
<p>Data sent:</p>
<ul>
<li>Your email address</li>
<li>The plugin version</li>
<li>Your IP address</li>
</ul>
<p>When sent:</p>
<ul>
<li>Only when you submit the “request new key” action from the plugin settings</li>
</ul>
<p>Why it is needed:</p>
<ul>
<li>ShortPixel must create your account and return an API key</li>
</ul>
<h4>ShortPixel deactivation feedback service</h4>
<p>Service: <code>https://api.shortpixel.com/v2/feedback.php</code></p>
<p>Used for: sending feedback if you choose to submit a deactivation reason.</p>
<p>Data sent:</p>
<ul>
<li>The plugin name and version</li>
<li>The selected deactivation reason</li>
<li>Any feedback text you enter</li>
<li>Your email address and name only if you explicitly choose the non-anonymous feedback option</li>
</ul>
<p>When sent:</p>
<ul>
<li>Only when you submit the deactivation feedback form</li>
</ul>
<p>Why it is needed:</p>
<ul>
<li>To deliver the feedback you explicitly chose to send to ShortPixel</li>
</ul>
<p>Terms of Service: <code>https://shortpixel.com/tos</code><br />
Privacy Policy: <code>https://shortpixel.com/privacy</code></p>


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