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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193 Comments
Thanks for your work Vladimir. This plugin is almost perfect for my purposes. I would love to see the ability to have my description propogate in the alt tag field. Is there a way to do this in current or future versions?
Thanks again!
This plugin is working great at my site, thank you for share
Спасибо за отличный плагин, очень полезный для оптимизации сайта
love this plugin...really great..i am also using your many other plugins..you are working great..
love this plugin, used it on my site, please check it out http://www.sheisbeautiful.com
also wondering if you guys use any gallery plugin for this, ?
Hello Vladimir,
that is a great plugin, we use it in two projects and it works like a charm. Thanks a lot for sharing it :-)
Hi Vladimir,
thanks for the nice plugin,I am using it with 2.8 and it seems do do what it should :-) However I am thinking about updating WP in the next months. Is the plugin compatible with the latest version of WordPress?
Ricbi
Vladimir, thank you for this nice plugin!
I had the same problems as others (title not being updated). I tried lolxl solution but it didn't work either. I then installed the "Img Title Removal" plugin and everything started to work fine. I guess the problem is that if you already have titles, they are not being overwritten, so this way they are first cleared and then managed by SEO Friendly Images.
You can download the "Img Title Removal" plugin at:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/img-title-removal/
Vladimir, one question. Is it posible to update images in the posts that already have the alt tag specified? (I don't want to replace the alt tag or create another one, just update all the posts to show the alt description in the html). Thank you very much.
Yeah!! Good plugin!! :D Thank you so much
Plugin looks great but I have some problems with galleries. Thumbnails are resized. When plugin is on they are shown in "80x8px". When I turn off the plugin they back to normal: "80x80px".
Any ideas?
Anyone else having problems with this. My alt is correctly being converted by this plugin but the titles refuse to change.
good!! please keep it update.
thanks
Congratulations. :)
great for the plugin please keep it update.
thanks