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
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
cant seem to get it to work with images in custom fields .. any suggestions?
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
hello great plugin
when will we have this option "Override default WordPress title", it woul be great
Hi, great work! But it seems it doesn't work with a revolution two theme. Any idea?
Ciao
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
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
hi! thanks for plugin :)
awesome plugins!.......using 3 of em
thx
Thanks u got some good info here great blog
Thanks u got some good info here
great blog
Hi,
Can i install it on WP 2.7.1?
Thnx in advance
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
Love the plug-in. Good stuff.
Hi Vladimir
Just wanted to thank you for a brilliant plugin!
Plugins like this make my life a lot easier :-)
Cheers
Kev
Kao i uvek - FENOMENALNO !!!
Ovo je jedan od najboljih plugina za mene jer imam gomilu slika na blogu !!!
Released version 2.4, optimization and single quotes bug. Compatible up to WP 2.7.1!
Any update on how well this works with NextGen Gallery?
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!!
Thanks for this post. This plugin is exellent.
very cool Plugin, but The plugin does not work on wordpress 2.7 in the aktuell version!?!
The plugin does not work on wordpress 2.7. Is there any chance to fix it ?
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
It works on 2.7 out of box, it must be an issue with your theme/other plugins. Please send more details.
@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.