Presswell Alt Text Generator vs Toolbelt

Presswell Alt Text Generator helps teams reduce accessibility backlog by generating descriptive alt text for new and existing images. Connect a provider, choose a model, and run generation workflows directly inside wp-admin. Features Supports OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini multimodal models Generates alt text for individual images in the Media Library and media modal Processes missing-alt backlogs in batches with a dedicated bulk queue Handles provider rate limits with automatic cooldown locks Adds a Media Library column with quick generate/regenerate actions Provides a customizable prompt seed for output consistency Media Library Tools Inline actions let you generate or regenerate alt text directly from each image row. When an image has no alt text, the column displays a “Generate Alt Text” link that triggers the AJAX workflow and replaces itself with the result. Bulk Generator The Bulk page counts images missing alt text, allows regeneration preferences, and runs batches while surfacing progress, failures, and rate-limit pauses. Documentation Filters pwatg_available_services — Modify the available AI providers pwatg_available_models — Modify the available models for each provider pwatg_provider_registry — Map provider slugs to custom service classes WP-CLI If WP-CLI is available, you can run single-image generation, bulk generation, and missing-alt counts from the command line: wp pwatg generate wp pwatg bulk-generate wp pwatg count-missing wp pwatg network-bulk-generate Optional CLI flags: wp pwatg generate --force wp pwatg bulk-generate --force wp pwatg bulk-generate --limit= wp pwatg bulk-generate --missing-only wp pwatg network-bulk-generate --force wp pwatg network-bulk-generate --limit= wp pwatg network-bulk-generate --missing-only wp pwatg network-bulk-generate --sites= Privacy This plugin sends image-derived payloads to the AI provider you choose when generating alt text (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini). API keys are stored in WordPress options on your site and used only for outbound provider requests initiated by your server. External Services This plugin connects to external AI services only when you use alt text generation features or test provider connectivity. Only the provider selected in plugin settings is contacted for a given request. This plugin sends the follow data: API key (in Authorization header) Selected model name Prompt text (including your prompt seed and filename context) For alt-text generation: image MIME type and image binary content encoded as base64 For Test Connection: a short text prompt (“Reply with: OK”) OpenAI API Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy Anthropic API Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy Google Gemini API Terms: https://ai.google.dev/terms Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

A collection of simple addons that provide every day functionality with privacy and speed. There’s very few options, and no unnecessary filler. It does exactly what it needs to do and nothing else. Toolbelt takes a privacy first approach to adding features. Everything happens on your server. No data is sent to third party servers without your explicit consent. No data is loaded from third parties (for example social sharing scripts). Taking inspiration from Jetpack I want to rebuild the features I use the most and make them as simple and fast as possible. Toolbelt has been featured on The WordPress Tavern in an interview with me. You can read more about the creation of the plugin and my desire for a more private internet. Gutenberg Blocks Some of the Toolbelt modules include blocks to make working with the generated content easier. The available blocks are: Contact Form – The simplest way to have people get in touch. Works with the spam module. Post Categories – A category content list for magazine and newspaper themes. Simple Slider – A fast, CSS powered slider. No JavaScript and easy to edit. Projects Grid – to list a collection of projects. These can be filtered by project category. Testimonials Grid – to list a group of testimonials. Great for showing off! 🙂 Markdown – for those who like a simpler writing experience. Sitemap – Easily list all posts, pages, Categories and Projects. Star Rating – Rate things with a simple visual interface. Breadcrumbs – for full site editing. Related posts – for full site editing. All Features Toolbelt has a lot of features. The complete list is below. Admin Interface Tweaks – Small CSS changes to make the interface nicer to use. Avatars – Algorithmicly generated private avatars that are consistent across websites. Breadcrumbs Contact Form – Gutenberg compatible & private. Supports the spam blocker module. Cookie Banner CSP Header Disable Comment Urls – Removes comments urls from your site. Disable REST API – Disable the REST API from public usage. Fast 404 – Stops WordPress from loading the full 404 page for images and other content. Reduces server usage. Footnotes Get Image – Find a featured image for posts that do not have one assigned. Heading Anchors – Add anchor names to headings so that they can be linked to. Iframe Privacy Shield – Remove iframes and add a clickable screen so that they load when the user wants to see them. Infinite Scroll Jetpack Dev Mode – Disable Jetpacks connection so that only local functions are enabled. Lazy Loading Layout Grid – A nicer columns block. Markdown Monetization – Enable Coil Web Monetization. OEmbed – Add additional OEmbed providers. Optimization – Remove WordPress features that are rarely used. Portfolio – Portfolio custom post type and blocks. Post Category – A post category block. Random Redirection – Randomly redirect to a blog post. Related Posts Remove IP Addresses – Remove IP addresses from comments for user privacy (spam protection still works). Responsive Videos Search Redirect – If there’s a single search result redirect to it instead of displaying the restuls. Sitemap – Sitemap block. Slider – JavaScript free CSS slider block. Social Menu – Replace social links with icons in navigation blocks. Spam Blocker – Privacy focused spam blocker. Static Social Sharing – Link to social sharing pages, and don’t load social network content on your site. Stats – Enable privacy focused analytics providers like Fathom. Testimonials – Testimonials Custom post types and blocks. Tidy Notifications – Move plugin and theme notifications to a sidebar. Typographic Widows – Remove widows in post titles. Widget Display – Set rules for widget visibility. Toolbelt is Private Every week there’s a new story about Facebook (or Google, or Amazon, or whoever) tracking people inappropriately, or selling user details. Or some security breach that leaks users passwords or credit card info. Privacy is a big topic and frankly, it’s scary how much big corporations like Google, Facebook, and Twitter know. To ensure Toolbelt is as privacy focused as possible it: Does not phone out. No data is shared with third parties. Does not use standard social sharing javascripts (loaded from social networks servers). Does not track your usage of the plugin. Does not add generator comments, or secret promotional comments to your site html. Toolbelt is Fast Slow websites make me sad. I don’t want to add anything to Toolbelt that will impact site load speed. My Google Pagespeed score should not move from 100. Why? Faster sites are shown to increase conversions and time on site. Google loves fast sites and improves their search rankings. In addition fast sites are great for people with slower internet access, or on mobile data, and use less resources to generate the page. So many benefits! To be fast Toolbelt: Doesn’t use jQuery or any other javascript framework. All javascript is vanilla js, and minified. Minifies all assets (JS and CSS). Loads all assets inline. They are already small, and loading them directly on the page means there are no server requests. Only loads things when they are needed. JS and CSS are only loaded for activated modules. Very few options. There’s one main database option, an array that stores what modules are active. And another that stores settings for some modules. Uses the minimum code possible. Minimum Javascript and PHP. Less code means more speed, and fewer bugs. All options are disabled by default. You enable only the ones you need. Built for developers Toolbelt is built with developers in mind. It has a collection of hooks and filters to enable you to make the modules work the way you want. If you’re intersted to jump in the project, there are opportunities for developers at all levels to help out. Contribute to Toolbelt on GitHub and join the party. 🎉 The code can be found on Github Documentation with code examples can be found on the wiki You can reach out to me with questions or problems on Twitter