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
v2.3: 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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August 16th, 2008 at 13:59
Hi
Thank you very much for the plugin
August 12th, 2008 at 22:46
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 ‘&’.
August 11th, 2008 at 23:38
Thank you for a great little plugin.
Toby @
July 24th, 2008 at 14:08
Is there any reason it wouldn’t work on all images already posted or is this for images going forward that are posted?
July 23rd, 2008 at 13:08
Even more SEO for my website
July 15th, 2008 at 17:25
There is no reason not to work. I am running 2.6 here too.
July 15th, 2008 at 16:26
Help! I don’t think seo friendly images is working with wordpress 2.6!
July 9th, 2008 at 17:07
This plugin incompatible with blog in russian UTF-8
Plugin destroy RSS feed =(
July 8th, 2008 at 11:59
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!
July 8th, 2008 at 8:26
Do you use the latest version, 2.3?
July 8th, 2008 at 8:15
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
July 7th, 2008 at 9:12
Version 2.3 is out with few tweaks.
July 6th, 2008 at 17:40
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.
July 6th, 2008 at 13:25
I need to rename images of posts with title name
July 2nd, 2008 at 19:07
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…
June 29th, 2008 at 19:19
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
June 17th, 2008 at 16:16
Can you send more info on what’s wrong with regex?
June 14th, 2008 at 12:08
Thanks for the plugin.
June 11th, 2008 at 18:44
Nice plugin, but breaks my style attributes i assigned to some images. Would be great, if you could fix the regex…
Cheers
May 27th, 2008 at 4:06
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..