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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November 14th, 2008 at 23:28
I think you should write a book on plugins…it’s time I guess.
November 11th, 2008 at 16:37
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
November 11th, 2008 at 2:28
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.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:46
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/sex.....o-bubbles/
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thank You
Kasumi
October 28th, 2008 at 0:51
@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?
October 21st, 2008 at 7:35
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
October 16th, 2008 at 5:11
how about adding a feature : Height and width tags to SEO friendly images… just a idea.
Pozdrav
October 11th, 2008 at 21:43
Mnogo hvala na odlicnom pluginu.
October 2nd, 2008 at 20:53
Hello,
Thanks for this great plug-in for creating seo optimized images.
September 30th, 2008 at 19:33
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”.
September 27th, 2008 at 0:32
Ej majstore, svaka čast!
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!