SEO Friendly Images

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.

Download

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Installation & Usage

  1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
  3. Use the Options page to modify ALT and TITLE options.
  4. 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.

example SEO Friendly Images

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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170 Comments

  1. ภาพทำเว็บไซต์ websiteza.com
    Yesterday

    Very nice plugin .thank for seo friendly...

  2. Jeroen babydeboer.nl
    Dec 30th, 2009

    Installed with WP 2.9
    Title field in obligated, so I can not leave it blank. But it is not replaced by title of post.
    Alt works ok.

  3. Tim
    Dec 28th, 2009

    hi,

    work it with wordpress 2.9 ?

    i have installed the plugin, but nothing results.. :(

  4. AUTO auto-standart.com.ua
    Dec 18th, 2009

    Its a very good plugin. I tried it in my blog =))

  5. Sean h3sean.com
    Dec 15th, 2009

    I use the wordpress default image uploader to create alt texts and title for my images. It works fine for me...

  6. leanne
    Dec 9th, 2009

    I've tried it and the alt tags show up fine, but for some reason it won't replace the title tag properly. I'm using WP2.8.6

  7. Robin Greene
    Nov 27th, 2009

    Hi there,

    Is there a way the plugin can convert special characters? For example, I have a title with an ampersand (&) and this is not being converted in the title and so failing validation.

    Any help would be great!

    Thanks,

    Robin

  8. Marcin marcinfryze.com
    Nov 23rd, 2009

    Is this plugin compatible with 2.8.6 ?

  9. Benard rotapix.com
    Nov 18th, 2009

    appreciate your efforts dude. Will give it a try on our blog

  10. Andre Colt mesrianilaw.com
    Oct 10th, 2009

    Let me try this for my site.BTW Thanks for the plugin I hope I can use it for my new site and If ever i found some bugs, I will tell you.

  11. Simon saleslettersoftware.net
    Oct 1st, 2009

    Just want to praise your efforts, and say keep on..regards

  12. Saksham bloggingjunction.com
    Sep 21st, 2009

    Its a very nice plugin. I tried it in my site.

  13. lolxl lolxl.com
    Sep 20th, 2009

    And now it is working. Thx for your work.

    • Vladimir prelovac.com
      Sep 20th, 2009

      Feel free to send the patched plugin ;)

    • markj reelseo.com
      Sep 20th, 2009

      LOLXL - thanks for fixing this as Ive had that problem for some time. I was told that it was me or a conflicting plugin so thanks for pointing out the error

  14. lolxl lolxl.com
    Sep 20th, 2009

    Also:
    I replaced your test
    if ((trim($pieces[$key+1])=='""') || (strpos($saved, str_replace('"','',trim($pieces[$key+1]))) && $override=="on"))
    with
    if ((trim($pieces[$key+1])=='""') || ($override=="on"))

    (again to enable correct overriding)

    • mazder blendstyle.ru
      Oct 9th, 2009

      lOL (again to enable correct overriding) ? :)

  15. lolxl lolxl.com
    Sep 20th, 2009

    hi.
    I just found a little bug in version 2.4.4 : the title tags are not overridden at all, whereas the alt tags are.

    You just forgot an else statement in your plugin code :
    if (!in_array('title=', $pieces)) {
    ..
    }
    .. and there is no else.

  16. pmcc getyourownbuisness.com
    Sep 5th, 2009

    I used the Thesis theme from diytheme.com. Is i load images vis CSS no alt tag are added. The rest of the images loaded in the site are ok.

    Is there something i can do?

    Pmcc

  17. simon
    Aug 28th, 2009

    the alt works well while the title can not work!!

  18. Jawad hardwareinsight.com
    Aug 22nd, 2009

    The best thing I like about this plugin is that it does everything automatically for you. All you have to do is install it. I really wanted it.

    I remember when I was making my blog according to google webmaster guidelines, i had only 20 posts and had to give alt and title of each image in it manually. It took me 2 days. Now I have more than 130 post, this plugin will help a lot.

    Thanks a lot vladimir :)

  19. Afro Hair Extensions afrodesire.com
    Aug 20th, 2009

    Very good post. Infact am looking for a wordpress plug-in to optimize my product images in my shopping cart. Let me try this out.

    Thanks again

  20. aleksey helpingmom.info
    Aug 14th, 2009

    Thanks mate, i've tried this plugin at wp 2.7 and it didnt work for some reason. But when 2.8 came out - all works like a charm!

  21. extremecarver openmtbmap.org
    Jul 30th, 2009

    This plugin is incompatible with atahualpa theme. If I set static css file, or external instead of internal css file, then my page design is completely messed up.

    Otherwise I liked the plugin...

  22. Michael gamingrover.com
    Jul 20th, 2009

    I tried out your plugin and it wasn't working for me. I deactivated all other plugins and it still didn't work on the main page, but worked fine for single posts.

    The plugin that stopped SEO Friendly Images from working all together was Feedwordpress.

    Any ideas how to get around this issue?

    Thanks for any help,
    Michael

  23. Mark reelseo.com
    Jul 15th, 2009

    Sorry, looks like it stripped the source code out of the comment... makes sense - ha, I forgot about that. Ok, so the source that shows is

    title="vimeo logo" src=IMAGE-SOURCE-HERE/www.vimeo-200x56.png alt="vimeo logo"

  24. Mark reelseo.com
    Jul 15th, 2009

    Vladimir - Love the plugin. However, like a few others who commented, I cant seem to get it to override wordpress. In particular, I have alt set to %name %title and all that seems to show is %name. For example, here is the output for an image on my homepage

    I have the image name as vimeo logo, so that seems to work. However, the title of the post is "Vimeo Gives You More Features Now"

    Hope this makes sense. Any ideas why this might not be working. Im on wordpress 2.8 Thanks in advance.

  25. John
    Jul 13th, 2009

    just leaving an update after playing around with this plugin

    yes it does work with photobucket, the only problem is that when using %title, it uses the same title for all images on the page.

    since i can't use %name attritube because i have random filenames, this is the only option i am left with

    it would be good if this plugin could tag multiple pictures with different titles somehow, such as by using a different wordpress tag for each image

  26. John
    Jul 9th, 2009

    and can this be used if images are hosted on an external image host such as photobucket?

  27. John
    Jul 8th, 2009

    can we still use this plugin if we have random filenames such as 3rfj9i4.jpg? and if there are multiple pictures on one page?

  28. jan Peter telefoontjekopen.nl
    Jul 1st, 2009

    Hello,

    is it possible to change file names?

  29. Ihsan Prawoto ihsan.topjitu.com
    Jul 1st, 2009

    thank's for u, it plugin will be use for my blog

  30. DavidFedulov manofart.com
    Jun 27th, 2009

    Vladimir!
    Thank you very much for the plugin!!!)

  31. Felix felix-freebies.com
    Jun 27th, 2009

    Interesting plugin? Does it works at other sites?

  32. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Jun 26th, 2009

    I sure do, check out my services page.

  33. mark reelseo.com
    Jun 26th, 2009

    Thanks for the quick response - I did deactivate other plugins and still seem to be having the issue. On another note, I was reading your optimization bible and was going to email you separately - do you do custom work for hire? I could use someone to help me speed things up and it is a bit over my head to be honest.. Thanks in advance.

  34. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Jun 26th, 2009

    Check your other plugins for conflict, works fine in 2.8.

  35. mark reelseo.com
    Jun 26th, 2009

    Hey there Vladimir, dont know if you are supporting this plugin anymore, but doesnt seem to work for me. I have it activated and have the options chosen, but it is not doing what it claims to do. Actually, ever since I upgraded to 2.7 - now at 2.8, it seemed to stop working, any ideas?

    • simon
      Aug 27th, 2009

      yes, it can not work anymore, the title can not added.

  36. Kurtlar Vadis Pusu kurtlarvadisi.org
    Jun 20th, 2009

    oow, very very thanks (: nice plugin.. :)

  37. rohin phatbrush.com
    Jun 10th, 2009

    Vlad , Great work my man , but I have one issue and am not sure if it is my fault but on my site the content and posts are all pictures and each post requires an image that is posted in custom feilds. When I check the website main page via firebug , the images do not have any text in the alt tags.

    can you tell take a look ? Perhaps its a loose setting or something , In the single.php post pages it seems fine.

    http://phatbrush.com

    Thanks !

    ~Rohin

  38. Jan Peter
    May 26th, 2009

    at the time that there is ga I certainly use him.

    JP Netherlands

  39. Vladimir prelovac.com
    May 26th, 2009

    That is a great idea, changing filenames to match the alt tag. Anyone willing to change the code?

  40. Jan Peter
    May 26th, 2009

    Hello,

    SEO images is verry important, only it's also to change names like: DSC12231200.JPG to example: audi-a8-quatro.jpg

    te filenames are also verry important.

  41. Li-An li-an.fr
    May 22nd, 2009

    As I got a blog about illustrations, your plugin seems very adequat and I wonder if it could be interesting to add Wordpress tags to the images tags ?

  42. Land Rover One Ten landroveroneten.com
    May 5th, 2009

    Excellent, this has made my job so much easier. Not only does it help with SEO, but it improves accessibility and usability and ensures my blog is valid html

  43. bobby
    Apr 30th, 2009

    cant seem to get it to work with images in custom fields .. any suggestions?

  44. Ray bradentonchurch.com
    Apr 27th, 2009

    I have the same problem as Bruno. It doesn't seem to work with my theme. Any ideas?

    Using:

    WP 2.7.1
    Revolution Two - Church Theme

  45. people lefrigodespeople.com
    Apr 27th, 2009

    hello great plugin

    when will we have this option "Override default Wordpress title", it woul be great

  46. Bruno
    Apr 16th, 2009

    Hi, great work! But it seems it doesn't work with a revolution two theme. Any idea?

    Ciao

  47. Ginger symptomsandtreatment.com
    Mar 31st, 2009

    Hiya! Can't seem to get this working with Arthemia Premium theme. I've disabled my plug-ins and it still doesn't work, so I'm assuming it's the theme. Any ideas? This would save me a ton of time, so I'd love to get it working. :D

    Keep up the fabulous work. Thanks!

    Read more: "SEO Friendly Images - Wordpress Plugins" - http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-friendly-images#ixzz0BIqzPON3

  48. Rob
    Mar 20th, 2009

    Hi,

    Is it possible to make the plugin work with images in custom fields? At the moment it only seems to work for the main body of a post.

    Cheers,
    Rob

  49. hobi ajansmarket.com
    Mar 17th, 2009

    hi! thanks for plugin :)

  50. anusharaji talimpu.com
    Mar 10th, 2009

    awesome plugins!.......using 3 of em
    thx

  51. Ben netgonecrazy.com
    Mar 3rd, 2009

    Thanks u got some good info here great blog

  52. Ben netgonecrazy.com
    Mar 3rd, 2009

    Thanks u got some good info here
    great blog

  53. Artuzzo artuzzo.com
    Feb 22nd, 2009

    Hi,
    Can i install it on WP 2.7.1?
    Thnx in advance

  54. The Hungry Mouse thehungrymouse.com
    Feb 20th, 2009

    Hiya! Can't seem to get this working with Arthemia Premium theme. I've disabled my plug-ins and it still doesn't work, so I'm assuming it's the theme. Any ideas? This would save me a ton of time, so I'd love to get it working. :D

    Keep up the fabulous work. Thanks!

    Jessie

  55. Market Leverage squidoo.com
    Feb 20th, 2009

    Love the plug-in. Good stuff.

  56. Kevin John SEO Lewis searchengine-promotion.co.uk
    Feb 20th, 2009

    Hi Vladimir

    Just wanted to thank you for a brilliant plugin!

    Plugins like this make my life a lot easier :-)

    Cheers

    Kev

  57. Deda dedabor.com
    Feb 19th, 2009

    Kao i uvek - FENOMENALNO !!!
    Ovo je jedan od najboljih plugina za mene jer imam gomilu slika na blogu !!!

  58. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Feb 19th, 2009

    Released version 2.4, optimization and single quotes bug. Compatible up to WP 2.7.1!

  59. Omer Altay mmohut.com
    Feb 18th, 2009

    Any update on how well this works with NextGen Gallery?

  60. Paul
    Feb 16th, 2009

    the plugin has serious bug when we use img tag with single quotes for parameters. Try to create this tag

    @img src='img.jpg' height='100' width='100'@
    and the result will be like
    @img src='img.jpg' height='100' width='100 title="post name"@

    without trailing single quote for width parameter. Fix please!!

  61. Kerrnel newsdozor.net.ru
    Feb 16th, 2009

    Thanks for this post. This plugin is exellent.

  62. Sitt78 dontwork
    Feb 16th, 2009

    very cool Plugin, but The plugin does not work on wordpress 2.7 in the aktuell version!?!

  63. bebe
    Feb 9th, 2009

    The plugin does not work on wordpress 2.7. Is there any chance to fix it ?

  64. Pete
    Feb 9th, 2009

    Very cool plugin - thanks! I'm just starting to experiment with this and thought of an idea that might help. Would it be possible to automatically set the text link titles with the page title of the target page? Just a thought.

    Thanks!
    Pete

  65. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Feb 2nd, 2009

    It works on 2.7 out of box, it must be an issue with your theme/other plugins. Please send more details.

  66. Dave
    Feb 2nd, 2009

    @onelargeprawn... must be a 2.7 issue, thanks for the feedback and confirmation

    @prelovac or others... is there a timeline for a 2.7 compliant version? I think this would make a nice add to my site.

  67. onelargeprawn onelargeprawn.co.za
    Feb 2nd, 2009

    @Dave: You're in the same boat. I've tried this plugin on WP 2.7 and it's not working for me either.

  68. Dave
    Feb 2nd, 2009

    @ onelargeprawn... no, that's not it. I saved the default settings then updated them to no effect... clearly I'm doing something wrong but it simply is not accepting the default or revised settings.

  69. onelargeprawn onelargeprawn.co.za
    Feb 2nd, 2009

    @Dave: If you go to your blog, and access the properties of an image, the alternative text of the image should be set to whatever you have configured the plugin to output for alternative text.

  70. Dave
    Feb 2nd, 2009

    Silly question... but how will I know when this tool is working? I loaded it but have not noticed any changes.

  71. Henry seopowix.com
    Jan 28th, 2009

    I will try to install it and hope there will be an effect.

  72. Arbune Webmaster blog.arbune.com
    Jan 28th, 2009

    Hey, thanks for the info. Just a question, though, how does this mod apply alternate and titles to images if they are missing? Does it generate random strings?
    I'm thinking about trying this mod but I don't know if it's compatible with Wordpress 2.7 ...

  73. skinskin skinskin.ru
    Jan 27th, 2009

    installed it on several blogs - it worked fine

    wp 2.7, english

    now it's not working... don't understand anything...

  74. ilk sira internetdevri.com
    Jan 25th, 2009

    Thanks for plugin. Download now and try it.

  75. Marcis Gasuns led24.de
    Jan 23rd, 2009

    Will it work with cyrillic websites too?

  76. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Jan 18th, 2009

    Thanks for the award, it a nice company to be in.

  77. Spot Cool Websites web.spotcoolstuff.com
    Jan 18th, 2009

    Hi,

    Just wanted you to know that your plugin has been selected as one of the five for travel blogs:

    Best WordPress Plugins For Travel Blogs

    Thanks for all your work with it!

  78. Webmaster w7b.org
    Jan 17th, 2009

    Hi,
    Thanks for the plugin.
    Some really nice optimizing help for newbies like us.

  79. nemoprincess nemoprincess.it
    Jan 15th, 2009

    Great post, thanks!

  80. Sue suebailey.net
    Jan 11th, 2009

    I have the same problem as onelargeprawn - doesn't seem to do anything for WP 2.7.

  81. onelargeprawn onelargeprawn.co.za
    Jan 11th, 2009

    Does this on Wordpress 2.7? I've installed this plugin on my local computer to test it, and it doesn't seem to work for me. It doesn't replace the ALT or TITLE attributes even though the "Override default Wordpress alt (recommended)" option is selected.

    Can anyone comment further on this?

  82. Matthew Hunt smallbusinessonlinecoach.com
    Jan 7th, 2009

    Awesome plugin for my clients who are inexperienced with wordpress and don't understand the value of have well tagged images. thank-you!

  83. Technology News technetnews.net
    Jan 2nd, 2009

    thanks for your post
    i' just used it for my site :)
    good jobs

  84. Sun ppctipsblog.cn
    Jan 2nd, 2009

    great plugin! I like it.

  85. Hardik hardiklive.com
    Jan 1st, 2009

    Yes it is working bro

  86. Gabriela imagesurvey.com.br
    Dec 28th, 2008

    Hi!
    Is this plugin working on wordpress 2,7 ?

  87. Гаджет devicegadget.ru
    Dec 16th, 2008

    Hi Vladimir
    thanks for such a usefull plugin!

    I've got one problem though:
    been using SEO Friendly images for my WP2.5.1 blog

    the plugin works perfectly when images are added as URL ("add image" icon). both image' title and alt are replaced with those I've set.

    the plugin doesn't insert title="" when images are loaded using WP media library tool. ALTs are working fine, though it is not replaced with my custom alt if the image has the alt set upon upload.

    I've got "Override default Wordpress alt (recommended)" checked.

    Looks like I've got my WP theme setting title and alt and the plugin doesn't manage to override it.

    Is there any way to fix this?

  88. The Fiery Source fierysource.com
    Dec 15th, 2008

    Fantastic Plug-in, thank you. I have installed on my blog and love it. Been looking for something like this for a while now. Love it

  89. ovidiu
    Dec 9th, 2008

    having a little problem/question with your plugin and attachments displayed as a gallery.

    - wp 2.7 rc1 10119
    - your plugin is correctly configured
    - using image.php inside my theme to display the attachment
    - calling the attachement like this: <a class="shutter" title="" href="ID); ?>">ID, 'large' ); ?>

    a sample output can be seen here: http://pacura.ru/pictures/westcoast-weekend/attachment/02_p1010530/ and the alt tag is empty. any ideas?

  90. saytopedia saytopedia.com
    Dec 6th, 2008

    Very important plugin. Thanks.

  91. Jyri Väätäinen hpguru.net
    Nov 25th, 2008

    What a work!!! Great plugin. Thanks. It works very fine.

  92. Michael actionfigurecustoms.com
    Nov 19th, 2008

    I have an odd issue...I converted my blog from Google Blogger to Wordpress and SEO friendly images is working for my old images that were posted to Google Blogger but it is not working for the new articles posted in Wordpress. Here is an example:

    Wordpress: http://www.actionfigurecustoms.com/2008/09/16/transformers-movie-optimus-prime-custom-15-figure-encline-designs/

    Old Google Blogger post coverted to Wordpress: http://www.actionfigurecustoms.com/2008/06/13/custom-transformers-movie-optimus-prime-leader-class-figure-by-creg-customs/

    Any help would be great!

  93. DemoGeek demogeek.com
    Nov 14th, 2008

    I think you should write a book on plugins...it's time I guess.

  94. sseoguy wallpapers4you.org
    Nov 11th, 2008

    hi

    the plugin is good but the alt tag is only shown on the thumbmails not the big images please fix the error in it.

    thanks

  95. Faucets bathroom-kitchen-faucets.com
    Nov 11th, 2008

    I don't know Image Optimization before. SEO Friendly Images PLUGIN is really great to help us to optimise our WP blog.

    We would like to say Thank You for your creativity.

  96. kasumi kasumiseo.co.uk
    Nov 7th, 2008

    Hi Vladimir

    How can I ‘Override default Wordpress alt’?

    ie. On the page (link below) I would like the company logo to say Wildcat SEO and not the aero bubbles alt tag

    http://www.kasumiseo.co.uk/sexy-jason-lewis-tempts-women-to-buy-aero-bubbles/

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

    Thank You
    Kasumi

  97. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Oct 28th, 2008

    @Gavin Seim - Changing title attributes does not work? Can you show an example?
    @Stefan Tell - Please tell me more about the problem. Best you can write me an email describing it
    @Aldo - Hvala, kako radi poker?

  98. Gavin Seim seimstudios.com
    Oct 21st, 2008

    Thanks so much. Simple and well done. Everything works good, except changing title attribute settings is not doing anything. It just used image title no matter what I enter. Still the alt was my main concern so it will do super.

    Gavin
    seimeffects.com

  99. lemurian nospam
    Oct 16th, 2008

    how about adding a feature : Height and width tags to SEO friendly images... just a idea.

    Pozdrav

  100. Hellas evilscience.org
    Oct 11th, 2008

    Mnogo hvala na odlicnom pluginu.

  101. Katy Perry kate-perry.com
    Oct 2nd, 2008

    Hello,
    Thanks for this great plug-in for creating seo optimized images.

  102. Stefan Tell stefantell.se
    Sep 30th, 2008

    Sorry to say, but this plugin destroyed my feed as well. So I had to get rid of it temporarily. Will check back later to see if the problem is solved.

    Somehow Feedburner and some other feed-readers had problems with Swedish characters (å,ä,ö) when using UTF-8 and complained about "high-bit characters".

  103. Aldo texasholdem-centar.com
    Sep 27th, 2008

    Ej majstore, svaka čast!

  104. Jobin Martin techmartini.com
    Aug 16th, 2008

    Hi

    Thank you very much for the plugin

  105. Jamie jandd.ca
    Aug 12th, 2008

    Hi, great plugin but I've found an issue leading to non-compliant HTML. It can generate title values where an ampersand is not properly encoded, ie. '&' is not encoded as '&'.

  106. Toby emarketerstoolbox.co.uk
    Aug 11th, 2008

    Thank you for a great little plugin.

    Toby @

  107. Atomic Popcorn
    Jul 24th, 2008

    Is there any reason it wouldn't work on all images already posted or is this for images going forward that are posted?

  108. Richard philix.co.uk
    Jul 23rd, 2008

    Even more SEO for my website :D

  109. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Jul 15th, 2008

    There is no reason not to work. I am running 2.6 here too.

  110. Will E focusphotoblog.com
    Jul 15th, 2008

    Help! I don't think seo friendly images is working with wordpress 2.6!

  111. Igor Alekseev igoralekseev.com
    Jul 9th, 2008

    This plugin incompatible with blog in russian UTF-8
    Plugin destroy RSS feed =(

  112. Naveen
    Jul 8th, 2008

    Yes, I just downloaded and tested it out.

    This just happens to image which has extra space before end bracket i.e .jpg" >, the extra space does not go well with the plugin. Since I post most of my posts via email, these extra spaces do appear.

    I got a work around it by using the search and replace plugin and replaced .jpg" > to .jpg">. It works now!

  113. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Jul 8th, 2008

    Do you use the latest version, 2.3?

  114. Naveen
    Jul 8th, 2008

    Thanx for the plugin!

    I'm also facing the problem which Ahni posted on May 21st. The plugin eats up last few letters of the image src and the image fails to load.

    .jpg is trim to .j or .jp
    .gif is trim to .gi or .g

    deactivating the plugin loads the image "fine"

    Using - Version 2.5.1

  115. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Jul 7th, 2008

    Version 2.3 is out with few tweaks.

  116. bob captionwit.com
    Jul 6th, 2008

    This is a great plugin. It works on most of my images. However, for some images, the src tag was modified wrongly leading to a broken image. E.g.

    becomes

    Two characters were chopped off ('g"' in this case) in original src attribute.

    I looked at your code and couldn't figure out why. I'd appreciate it if you could have a look. The is version 2.2.

  117. luxury furniture luxury-furniture.biz
    Jul 6th, 2008

    I need to rename images of posts with title name

  118. R. Richard Hobbs nyc.locationscout.us
    Jul 2nd, 2008

    SEO Friendly Images is a GREAT idea but I think it may be conflicting with GeoPress / http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geopress/ - sometime in the past week or so my embedded GeoPress maps stopped working and I just finished deactivating all my plugins trying to figure out where the problem might be occurring - I cant say for sure but right now SEO Friendly Images is off and my maps are back to working again...

  119. Julio Fernández colegioyapeyu.edu.ar
    Jun 29th, 2008

    Great plugin.

    Another SEO I think is important if you can implement... Can you add nofollow tag to every thumbmail of gallery image? Google index all my images :S

    Thanks :D

  120. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Jun 17th, 2008

    Can you send more info on what's wrong with regex?

  121. Ted Liptak travellop.com
    Jun 14th, 2008

    Thanks for the plugin.

  122. Karsten funk.eu
    Jun 11th, 2008

    Nice plugin, but breaks my style attributes i assigned to some images. Would be great, if you could fix the regex...

    Cheers

  123. Ruhani Rabin ruhanirabin.com
    May 27th, 2008

    Hi,

    This plugin is not compatible with CFORMS .. most probably it's trying to write the alt tag for the captcha image.. then CFORMS rendering fails.. Would it be possible to check certain image height and width..

    But anyway great work..

  124. Kurtlar Vadisi kurtlarvadisi.in
    May 25th, 2008

    hello,

    thanks for wordpress plugin.

    i using this plugin in wp 2.5

  125. Ahni
    May 21st, 2008

    Cheers for the fixes, but there's still something wrong with images that don't have a trailing slash. The html looks like...

    img src="http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/noie.pn%20title=" presentation="" to="" support="" heart="" of="" the="" world="" alt=""

    I hope this is solvable. I'm really looking forward to using your plugin :D

  126. Vladimir prelovac.com
    May 20th, 2008

    Fixed the compatibility issues with WP 2.5.1, fixed breaking of html and added support for categories.

  127. Brent Csutoras
    May 18th, 2008

    This plugin does something else as well.

    I am running 2.5.1 and with the plugin on it does not work. It shows alt="" on all images on the site.

    Additionally it must to something more because the link for images looks identical with the plugin on or off.. however when i have the plugin on, it will not show images when trying to submit content to social sites like digg.

    When i turn it off then the images are available again as thumbnails on submissions. So there is something somewhere messing with the format of thumbnails?

  128. ymladenov money.tradeo.biz
    May 16th, 2008

    Great idea for a plugin.
    But is this thing validated?
    I hear it isn't compatible with some widgets that are officialy released for WP.

  129. xspoof
    May 12th, 2008

    Just downloaded the plugin. There's an error with an missing " at the end of the alt tag.

    Any idea how to fix that?

  130. Kane
    May 12th, 2008

    Great plugin, but it's incompatible with NextGen Gallery
    Please take a look at this thread
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/167607
    Hope this bug can be fixed soon.
    Thanks!

  131. Alarmcim alarmcim.com
    May 10th, 2008

    good idea for seo, thanks

  132. baron blog.turkbaron.com
    May 6th, 2008

    hi there .thanks for plugin:

    Does anybody know if tis script is compatible with Wordpress 2.5.1?

    Thanks in advance for any help on this!

    best regards

    baron

  133. Ben
    Apr 28th, 2008

    There is a problem with WordPress 2.5.1 and gallery, the plugin is not working po gallery images.

  134. Ahni
    Apr 15th, 2008

    hey. I'm having the spacing problem too, but it's messing up the images on my site. Here's what the html ends up looking like:

    [img src="cochabamba-bolivia-128x96.jpg%20title=" cochabamba-bolivia-128x96="" photo="" alt="cochabamba-bolivia-128x96"]

    I'm also getting the following error:

    Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in /../seo-friendly-images.php on line 231

    hopefully this can be fixed soon, this is a very useful plugin. Thanks.

  135. Anonymous
    Apr 14th, 2008

    This plugin doesn't properly handle img tags that are missing the trailing slash / before the closing >

    It also causes validation to fail due to extra spaces that it adds into the img tag... eg. it changes border="0" /> to border= "0" />

  136. Nantucket Art nantucket-art.com
    Apr 5th, 2008

    A great plugin for SEO purposes - thanks alot!

  137. Green industrydead.org
    Mar 21st, 2008

    Is there anyway to get it to also have the ability to put in ALT/TITLE the categorie the post the image is in?

  138. AJ
    Mar 20th, 2008

    I have just installed this plugin and it works fine on pictures that I have imported into a blog. However, for photos that are inserted into the blog with WPG2 (and linked to my Gallery) the photos display as a broken link and only the only %name and %title details appear. Has anyone else tested it with WPG2?

  139. Peter triplemotion.com
    Mar 17th, 2008

    Good idea, although it would be more useful if it put the image title in the title attribute instead of the page title.
    Thanks

  140. Stefan alterfalter.de
    Mar 16th, 2008

    I just noticed that WordPress does not provide a title tag for images. Is this true? Or am I dumb? Maybe both I guess. ;-)

    Nice plugin by the way but it puts space characters behind all equal signs.

    With plugin activated:

    alt= "... title= "...

    With plugin deactivated:

    alt="... title="...

    Greetings from Germany!

  141. multilingual
    Mar 16th, 2008

    Fantastic plugin! One problem is that it doesn't work with the polyglot multilingual plugin. When you get this to work, it will be a perfect companion to all in one seo pack! It's actually a very simple fix, shouldn't take but 1 minute. Apologies for the double post.

  142. joe sneakerobsession.com
    Mar 10th, 2008

    It must be Wordpress which is adding the dashes to the filename then...Man that stinks...I love this plugin for the fact it says me a lot of time...However i cant have those dashes being displayed for the alt and title....Nor can i set it up to add the title of my post cause sometimes my posts have weird titles which i would not want the pictures to be titled as, i use the All in one SEO plugin with Wordpress so i just use that to come up with keyword titles for the post...So using this plugin that way would defeat the purpose for me......This is sad, i may have to disable it :(

  143. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Mar 10th, 2008

    SEO Friendly Images plugin does not alter any filenames, nor is it active in file uploading process. It is changing the posts as they are being displayed, to show different attributes to images. You can check out the image in this post.

  144. joe sneakerobsession.com
    Mar 10th, 2008

    For the record, just so you know what im dealing with, i am working with the newest version of Wordpress...

    Your plugin is adding the dashes...Is there anyway to undo that and have it so no dashes are added?

    I went to my site and i did save one of the pictures...And yes, it is saved with dashes in the filename...However, that is not how i saved my pictures before i uploaded them....

    As said they are all saved with just a space, just dashes...So it would be "Nike Dunk Sneakers"....Your plugin adds the alt and title tag but it adds the dashes to the filename, which werent in the filename when uploaded....

    So when i save the photo its like saving a different file i dont already have...Cause now i have "Nike Dunk Sneakers" and "Nike-Dunk-Sneakers" both saved in the same folder and they are both acting as different files due to the dashes in the filename....

    Like i said...its the plugin adding the dashes to my filename....Is there any way to stop that?

    Sorry if this seems confusing...i am just tryin to make sure i go into detail so you know what im saying...

  145. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Mar 10th, 2008

    Try to save that image from your browser and you will see it has dashes in the filename. It could be that Blogger is adding the dashes automatically.

  146. joe sneakerobsession.com
    Mar 10th, 2008

    I save my files without the dash...Unless of course my computer is just not showing them when i view my files...But when i save something ill usually save it as "Nike Dunk Sneaker" without the dashes....Even when i put underscores "Nike_Dunk_Sneakers" it still shows a dash inbetween the words...

  147. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Mar 10th, 2008

    The dash must be coming from your filename.

    Dash is neutral from SEO perspective so you can keep it that way.

  148. joe sneakerobsession.com
    Mar 10th, 2008

    Great Plugin...I have it setup to pull up the Alt and Title Tag based on the filename since i store my files by their proper names....I have noticed that when i hover over my images it will show a title like Nike-Dunk-Sneakers....I was wondering if this is a plus for SEO when it comes to images or something not so great....Would it be better to display Nike Dunk Sneakers without the - inbetween the words?

  149. Dievochka dievochka.fr
    Mar 9th, 2008

    Great !

    I'll test it as soon as possible

    As you 've perhaps seen, I'm quite active in SEO in France.
    So if you want, I can try to translate your plugin in french, not in the coming days, as I've some familial obligations, but as soon as I can.. If somebody else doesn't do it before me...
    Why a translation : because people here have problems with foreign languages, even with english... :(

  150. Phaze
    Mar 9th, 2008

    186 array_push($pieces, '" title="' . $titletext_rep . '"');

    When i did change ' title="' to '" title="' i got it to work....

  151. Phaze
    Mar 9th, 2008

    seems like a mozilla problem. I was test in IE and there it was no problems.

  152. Phaze
    Mar 9th, 2008

    I did send you an email with link to the pictures/post

  153. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Mar 9th, 2008

    I did not notice any problems yet but point me to the pictures/posts in question and I'll check it.

  154. Phaze
    Mar 9th, 2008

    It's get mixed up with alt and title text like this:
    12345.jpg" 12345="" alt="here you got some text" border=" title=" height="240" width="320">

  155. David Roberts
    Mar 9th, 2008

    "It’s still wrong with alt and title in the zipfile!"

    What exactly do you mean?

  156. Phaze
    Mar 9th, 2008

    It's still wrong with alt and title in the zipfile!

  157. Abhinav Sood inspiritblog.com
    Mar 9th, 2008

    Great plugin, thanks a lot! Its going to be up and running at Inspirit in a few minutes.
    :D

  158. JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes jtpratt.com
    Mar 9th, 2008

    actually, this plugin is great for accessibility, but the SEO benefits are great as well, since google images will eat up these keyword-laden tags and you will get more traffic from google images. You would be surprised how many more visitors you can get from that.

  159. Laarni doorlight.ihousha.net
    Mar 7th, 2008

    @Ashish Mohta Yes, I think so. All my past images got "alted" and "titled."

  160. Ashish Mohta technospot.net
    Mar 7th, 2008

    Does it pulls up all the images which is stored in upload directory of wordpress and edit their alt and title tag ? If you can provide with a snap shot it would be great

  161. RedMoze jenyburn.com
    Mar 7th, 2008

    Very nice plugin. thanks.

  162. Deddy andaka.com
    Mar 7th, 2008

    A must have plugin for SEO. Thanks..

  163. Laarni doorlight.ihousha.net
    Mar 6th, 2008

    I love it. thanks for sharing. :)

  164. Vladimir prelovac.com
    Mar 2nd, 2008

    Thank you Dan, glad to be there :P

    Category, hmmm.. Good idea for next version ;)

  165. Vincent's Tip's & Trick's theworldofoffice.com
    Mar 2nd, 2008

    What a great plugin, this is very useful.

    I’ll be playing around with it immediately.

    I don’t know if it has this option but I am especially looking for a plugin that creates the ALT and TITLE text similar as the category. If it doesn’t have this option it might be worth thinking about.

    Anyway, thanks a lot!! This is really a great plugin!

  166. Dan Schulz dan-schulz.com
    Mar 2nd, 2008

    Vlad, your plugin (which I consider to be far more necessary for accessibility and usability than SEO) just got onto my "Required WordPress Plugins" list.

    Congratulations. :)

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