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SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.
TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.
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Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Use the Options page to modify ALT and TITLE options.
- You are done, SEO Image does everything else
SEO Friendly Images options recognize two tags %title (post title) and %name (filename of the picture). By combining these two tags and additional words (photo, picture etc..) you can create relevant alt and title tags automatically for all images.
Here is a live example of the plugin (active on my blog). The image that has title and alt replaced with "%title" and "%name %title" respectively resulting in "SEO Friendly Image" for title and "example SEO Friendly Images" for alt.
There is one additional option called 'Override default WordPress alt'. If you uploaded pictures to your blog posts already and haven't specified a description WordPress would automatically add a default alt tag in form of image.jpg. Since SEO Friendly Images replaces only empty or non-existing alt tags, this would be left intact unless this option is turned on.
Changelog
v2.4: Regexp Optimization. Fixed bug with single quotes used in images.
v2.3.2: WP 2.7 cleanup
v2.3: Fixes an issue with poorly formatted img tag
v2.0: Fixed compatibility issue with WordPress 2.5.1 and included %category replacement string.
May 20th, 2008 v1.20
* Compatibility with WordPress 2.5.1 and support for %category.
Mar 6st, 2008 v1.1
* Bug fix with quotes in titles
Mar 1st, 2008 v1.0
* Initial release
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350 Comments
Hi,
I tried to use this plugin for woocommerce product pics, but it doens't work. Is this plugin doesn't compatible with woocommerce? It would be really great if I could use it for optimalizing product's images.
Thank you for your help in advance,
Regards
Rita
Is there some way to add ALT and TITLE to featured images (thumbs) too?
This plugin adds alt and title to my posts but on my homepage are featured images.
Thanks
Building my website to advertise my PAT Testing business has been hard work, and being a relative novice to seo has made progress even harder but what has been a major benefit to me is coming across excellent plug ins such as SEO friendly images which make it so easy for optimising the images I put on the site. It's so good I tell others about it too - thank you for making this free plug in
Hi, could you update the plugin such that if ALT is available, it will not overwrite it? I think this plugin is great when you don't have time to enter the individual ALT tags and have the plugin fill in the blank ones, but would love to have the option to use individual ALT tags when it is available.
Thanks for your hardwork!
a very interesting plugin to use, and after I try it on my website, first it must be understand its usage to be more optimal in their use
It is very good, i have applied for my website. I'm using Hostgator, it can affect the supperbanned???
I activated SEO Friendly Images but it is not working. The pictures on my blog still have their original titles. The Alternate Texts, Captions and Descriptions are still blank.
You mention that if Descriptions were not initially specified, you have to turn on 'Override default WordPress alt'.
1) Do I need to turn on 'Override default WordPress alt'?
2) If yes, how do I turn on 'Override default WordPress alt'?
3) You also suggest creating an account with Google Webmaster Central and enabling enhanced image indexing option. I don't see how to enable the enhanced indexing option.
I am VERY NON-TECHNICAL (usualy my web designer handles this but she is off work for the next two weeks). I'd appreciate any suggestions in very simple, easy to understand, easy to follow terms.
Thanks in advance
Bennett
awesome plugin. i really liked it. will surely write a positive review on my website :D
Hi there,
I am actually not sure if I understand how this plugin should work (and whether it does...).
At the moment when I load a new picture the Title and ALT fields are not being filled out. Also, the old pictures still have the old Title and ALT (which is good).
Is that right? When is the plugin supposed to do something? (Oh, yes, I do have the Override default WordPress on)
one'c a good name rimans above the grave
With the last update, there is a bug. The plugin doesn't work, the plugin doesn't change correctly the title of images.
Please, check and fix it!
Thanks!
I do hope this gets fixed I was having alt image problems (totally wrong alt text being added to images) and as soon as I deactivated this plugin all the alt text problems were resolved. But now I have a lot of images that do not have descriptions. I'd love to see this plugin updated too.
Thanks
Very cool plugin. Figuring out all of this SEO stuff is not easy; your plugin has made my internet life simple. Thanks again.
good information
and illustrating thoughts
thanks dude
I wonder if you can make the plugin sanitise filenames in such a way that capitalise the first letter of each word, or at least the first word, and remove the additional dash and number from filenames with similar names ending with "-#". I've been applying this system manually on my own blog, and I would very much like to adopt your plugin while keeping the standard I've already adopted. Any chance of that happening?