Update Image Tag Alt Attribute Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

This is an alt text modification plugin. It will take all empty alt tags and create a tag based upon the page they are attached to. This is best used when you have properly named files or have loaded images into the library in bulk.

Plugin actions in wordpress

This plugin searches for all images within the library which are missing alt-text attributes. The alt text will be chosen from page or post title elements if the image is attached to a page or post. Otherwise, file name will be used as the alt-text attribute of unattached images in media library.

The purpose is to help describe those images as best as possible for interpretation by search bots. Moreover, after updating, the plugin creates a file which lists all the images that was found to be missing alt-text attribute and then updated with alt-text. This will allow you to then tweak where necessary.

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Installation

Upload the zip file “alt-attribute.zip” to the WordPress plugin.
Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Review feed

onlinewebgrow

9/3/2016

fast

fast and lightweight

douglaskarr

4/27/2017

Lots of Potential

The plugin is concatenating the terms into the alt tag when it's multiple words. So "red dog" becomes "reddog". A whitelist/blacklist terms feature would be great so that you could skip images with filenames like "screenshot". An ajax edit option would be great on the output list of media that's been updated. The plugin stalled on a large site that I tested it on, never getting past "Loading...". Would be worth it to chunk the output by media ID.

Clicknathan

2/8/2018

Needs Work, Adds Menu Item

Could definitely use some improvements through an update. The good part, it updates your empty alt tags. The bad parts: the list it generates isn't clickable so you still have to go search for the images to tweak their content, the alt tags often have spaces removed, so a post titled "My Summer Vacation" seems to throw "mysummervacation" onto associated images as the alt text, and finally, instead of placing this in Settings or Tools (like the screenshot shows), it adds a whole new "Maui Marketing" area to navigation bar in WordPress, which is unnecessary.

Screenshots

The administration panel : activate update-alt-attribute plugin
Image checkout: sample image without alt-text in media
Update Alt for the website : notice before run update alt
Result after update : list of picture were found and added alt-text
Image checkout : alt-text field in image detail updated

Changelog

=2.4.5=
* Instant alt replacement function update
=2.4.4=
* Add word remove feature in settings so it will remove all words from image in input box.
=2.4.1=
* Remove frontend js
=2.4.0=
* Fixed
select not show nummber
Undefined post_type
Warning preg_match in php 7.0+
text image replace wrong
Editor Alt Media : do not load the entire image
Editor Alt Media : not load .SVG
* New
Editor Alt Media :add sort by title
Improve the performance
Improved Cron performance
=2.3.5=
* Fixed order by
=2.3.4=
* Fixed search
=2.3.3=
* Added link
=2.3.2=
* Added Log file
=2.3.1=
* Added Cron
=2.3.0=
* Added “Used” column
=2.2.0=
* Added wxh for images
=2.0.7=
* Updated some text
=2.0.6=
* Addded bulk edit
=2.0.5=
* Split to media and content
* Priority change alt by file name
=1.0.1=
Initial version

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