Auto Alt Text vs Auto Image Attributes From Filename With Bulk Updater (Add Alt Text, Image Title For Image SEO)

This plugin implements the automatic creation of alt text for images uploaded to the media library. The alt text is generated at the time of uploading the image and it is also possible to generate the alt text for images already present in the media library. To generate the alt text, you can choose to use the artificial intelligence of OpenAI or Azure, or decide if you simply want to copy the title of the article where the image is uploaded or the name of the image. Clearly, using artificial intelligence will allow for a more accurate and useful alt texts. Features This plugin allows you to generate alt texts in the following ways: – using Openai APIs (GPT-4o, GPT-4o Mini, o1 Mini) – using Anthropic Claude API – using Azure APIs for computational vision; – recovering the title of the image – recovering the title of the article in which the image is uploaded Getting Started After installing the plugin, click on the ‘Auto Alt Text’ menu item. Choice of Generation Method Select the Generation Method you prefer OpenAI’s APIs In your OpenAI account, retrieve the following data to enter on the options page: – API Key Choose the model you want to use for generating the alt text. Enter a prompt for generating the alt text according to your needs. Claude Anthropic’s APIs In your Anthropic account, retrieve the following data to enter on the options page: – API Key Choose the model you want to use for generating the alt text. Enter a prompt for generating the alt text according to your needs. Azure’s APIs On your Azure account, create a Computer Vision instance and retrieve the following data to enter on the options page: – Computer Vision API Key – Computer Vision Endpoint If you want to generate an alt text in English, save the options without filling in any other fields. If you want to generate an alt text in a different language, on your Azure account, create a Translator instance and retrieve the following data to enter on the options page: – Translator Instance API Key – Translator Instance Endpoint – Translator Instance Region After entering this data, save the options. Select the desired language and save the options again. Title of the article For this generation method, there are no options to set as the alt text will be generated by copying the title of the article in which the image is uploaded. In case the article is not uploaded as an attachment of an article, the “Title of the attachment” method will be used as a fallback. Title of the attachment For this generation method, there are no options to set as the alt text will be generated by copying the title of the image. Functioning Once the plugin is configured, each time an image is uploaded to the media library, an alt text will be automatically set based on the selected generation method. For images already in the media library, you can create bulk alt texts. Open the Media Library in the “list” view, select the images for which to generate the alt text, and choose the “Generate alt text” bulk action. (Depending on the number of images chosen and their weight, this may take some time.) You can also generate the alt text of a single image directly from the media library. Open the Media Library in “grid” mode, choose the image for which to generate the alt text, and click the “Generate alt text” button. In no time the alt text field will be overwritten by the generated description. WP-CLI If you prefer generating alt text in batch (e.g., to avoid processing in the Media Library UI), you can use WP-CLI. Generate alt text for a list of attachment IDs: wp auto-alt-text generate --ids=123,456,789 Process all image attachments in batches: wp auto-alt-text generate --all --limit=200 --offset=0 wp auto-alt-text generate --all --limit=200 --offset=200 Dry run (no metadata updates): wp auto-alt-text generate --ids=123,456 --dry-run Force overwrite of existing alt text (even if “Keep existing alt text” is enabled): wp auto-alt-text generate --all --limit=200 --offset=0 --force Notice: If you choose one of the methods that involves the use of external APIs, the upload times for images in the media library might increase because it requires sending a request to the APIs, waiting for the external server to process, and waiting for a response. Logging If the generation of the alt text via AI is set, in case of errors, to avoid blocking the editorial work, the image is loaded anyway but without the alt text being compiled. When a call to the Azure or OpenAI API fails, a record containing the error message is saved in a custom database table. In this case, the cause of the error can be seen on the Auto Alt Text -> Error log page. External Services This plugin uses the following external services alternatively: OpenAI Selecting the generation method “OpenAI’s APIs” will use the API services of OpenAI. This plugin does not collect any information from your OpenAI account. The data transmitted to OpenAI mainly consists of the image files uploaded to your website and the specified prompt. For accurate information on privacy and conditions of use, please consult the privacy policy and terms and conditions directly on the official website. It is also advisable to check the costs and usage statistics of the API service on the OpenAI website. Anthropic Claude Selecting the generation method “Anthropic’s APIs” will use the API services of Anthropic. This plugin does not collect any information from your Anthropic Claude account. The data transmitted to Anthropic Claude mainly consists of the image files uploaded to your website and the specified prompt. For accurate information on privacy and conditions of use, please consult the privacy policy, terms and conditions for consumers and terms and conditions for commercial directly on the official website. It is also advisable to check the costs and usage statistics of the API service on the Anthropic website. Azure Selecting the “Azure’s APIs” generation method will use the API services of Microsoft Azure. This plugin does not collect any information from your Azure account. The data transmitted to Azure consists mainly of image files uploaded to your website. For accurate information on privacy and conditions of use, please directly consult the privacy policy and terms and conditions on the official website. It is also advisable to check the costs and usage statistics of the API service on the Microsoft Azure’s website. Encryption Constants We strongly recommend defining the new plugin-specific constants in your wp-config.php: define( 'AAT_ENCRYPTION_KEY', 'a_random_string_of_at_least_64_characters' ); define( 'AAT_ENCRYPTION_SALT', 'another_random_string_of_at_least_64_characters' ); You will find these two define(…) lines already generated for you on the Auto Alt Text » Options page – simply copy & paste them before the /* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */ line in your wp-config.php. If you choose not to add them, the plugin will continue to work normally, but it will fall back to using your WordPress LOGGED_IN_KEY / LOGGED_IN_SALT, which may break if those salts are ever changed. Disclaimer Auto Alt Text is a plugin that helps users automatically generate Alt Texts of their images using AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Azure. Users need their own API key and must follow the rules set by the AI service they choose. By using Auto Alt Text, users agree to watch and manage AI-made content and address any issues or misuse. AI Engine developer and related parties are not responsible for any problems or losses caused by the use of the plugin or AI-generated content.

Automatically add Image attributes such as Image Alt Text, Image Title, Image Caption and Image Description from Image Filename. The plugin can update image attributes for both new image uploads and existing images in the media library. Great for Image SEO and Accessibility. Image alt text and title is critical for your image SEO and will help users discover your images (and there by your website) in Google / Yahoo / Bing image search. Life-Saver It allowed me to save tons of time. Further, the support is nice and ready to help. – thnk4 Proper alt text also helps people who are blind or who have low vision understand your images there by improving the accessibility of your website. This will open up your website to a new segment of visitors and increase your traffic. Wow! If I could give this 1 more star I would! – jdev With this plugin you can: Set the image filename as the image Title. Set the image filename as the image Caption. Set the image filename as the image Description. Set the image filename as the image Alt Text. This was a default feature in WordPress before 4.7. The plugin restores this essential feature which is great for SEO. Insert Image Title into post HTML. WordPress stopped adding Image Titles to images since WordPress 3.5. The plugin restores it. Remove hyphens from the image filename. Remove underscores from the image filename. Remove full stops from filename. Remove commas from filename. Remove all numbers from filename. Choose to turn off any of the above mentioned features. Display image attributes as columns in Media Library list view. With the bulk updater you can: Set the image filename as image Title, Caption, Description and Alt Text after removing hyphens and underscores from the filename. Update any number of images in your Media Library in one click. If your image filename is My_image-name.jpg, your Image Title, Caption, Description And Alt Text will be My image name. The plugin settings and bulk updater are in WordPress Admin > Settings > Image Attributes. Here you can choose which attributes to update for NEW uploads. Please remember to take a database backup before running the bulk updater (or anything bulk in general). The bulk updater updates ALL attributes for existing images in the Media Library and ignores the settings set for NEW uploads. Image Attributes Pro A pro add-on is now available for the plugin. Check out Image Attributes Pro. The pro add-on can update the image attributes from not just the image filename, but also from the post / page / product / custom post type title. You can fine tune the bulk updater settings and even clean up the actual image filename. Thank you so much for all your help in trying to fix this, its very much appreciated indeed. You’ve gone above and beyond what I was expecting in support! Rest assured I will give great feedback on your plugin anywhere I can!! – James Barber, for Image Attributes Pro via email. What the pro add-on you get these additional features: Use post title as title text. If image is not attached to a post, image filename will be used instead. Use post title as alt text. If image is not attached to a post, image filename will be used instead. Use post title as caption. If image is not attached to a post, image filename will be used instead. Use post title as description. If image is not attached to a post, image filename will be used instead. Build your own attributes using custom tags like %filename%, %posttitle%, %sitetitle%, %category%, %tag%, %wc_variation%, %yoastfocuskw%, %yoastseotitle%, %rankmathfocuskw%, %seopresstargetkw% and many more. Each custom tag will be replaced with it’s value. You can combine them as you please! Use Yoast Focus Keyword and Rank Math Focus Keyword as image attributes. Clear any image attribute by setting it as blank / empty. Exclude images from Bulk Updater. A meta box and a checkbox is added to the Media Library > Edit Media sidebar. When checked, the bulk updater will not update the attributes of that image in the media library or in posts / products where the image is used. Remove apostrophe ( ‘ ) from filename Remove tilde ( ~ ) from filename Remove plus ( + ) from filename Remove pound ( # ) from filename Remove ampersand ( & ) from filename Remove round brackets ( ( ) ) from filename Remove square brackets ( [ ] ) from filename Remove curly brackets ( { } ) from filename Filter words or characters from filename Filter filename with regex convert image attributes to lowercase CONVERT IMAGE ATTRIBUTES TO UPPERCASE Use title casing for image attributes. First Letter Of Each Word Will Be Capitalized. Use sentence casing for image attributes. First letter of a sentence will be capitalized. Clean the actual image filename after upload. Choose to turn off any of the above mentioned features. With the Image Attributes Pro bulk updater you can: Update image title and alt text for images inserted into posts and custom post types. Not just the media library. What is the difference? Fine tune all settings. Choose what to update. Update image titles / alt text in media library and / or existing posts. Update image titles / alt text in media library and / or existing posts only if no title / alt text is set. Existing image titles / alt text will be preserved. Update image caption and description in the media library. Existing image captions and descriptions can be preserved. Build your own attributes using custom tags like %filename%, %posttitle%, %sitetitle%, %category%, %tag%, %yoastfocuskw%, %yoastseotitle%, %rankmathfocuskw%, %seopresstargetkw% and many more. Each custom tag will be replaced with it’s value. You can combine them as you please! Choose to turn off any of the above mentioned features. Choose specific post types to bulk update. Bulk update image attributes in ACF’s WYSIWYG Editor and Divi theme. Modify auto generated image attributes using the iaffpro_image_attributes filter. Disable updating of attributes in media library completely and just updated attributes in Post HTML or vice versa. Add or remove custom image attributes using the iaffpro_html_image_markup_post_update filter Other Image Attributes Pro features: Bulk edit image attributes from the Media Library quickly and easily. Read more. Bulk Update image attributes from WordPress Media Library. Select images and choose Update image attributes Bulk action in Media Library (list view). Read more. Bulk Update image attributes from WordPress admin page for Posts, Pages and WooCommerce Products. Select the posts, pages or WooCommerce products in bulk and choose “Update image attributes” Bulk action. Read more. Copy image attributes to post HTML while updating in Media Library. Any changes made to image attributes in the media library will be automatically synced to the corresponding post HTML. Read more. Update image attributes on post publish or update. Automatically updates image attributes when a post is published or updated. Ensures image attributes are always consistent with settings. Read more. For screenshots, FAQ and full list of features, please see the product website. No Competitors This is the only one that enables you to add missing tags to your images in one go, simple! … This one is very well coded and the author pays great attentions to users feedback / requests / support. – arsenalemusica