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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Hi! My name is Vladimir Prelovac. I am a computer engineer by profession and an adventurer by state of mind.
162 Comments
the alt works well while the title can not work!!
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 :)
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
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!
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...
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
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"
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.
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
and can this be used if images are hosted on an external image host such as photobucket?
can we still use this plugin if we have random filenames such as 3rfj9i4.jpg? and if there are multiple pictures on one page?
Hello,
is it possible to change file names?
thank's for u, it plugin will be use for my blog
Vladimir!
Thank you very much for the plugin!!!)
Interesting plugin? Does it works at other sites?
I sure do, check out my services page.
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.
Check your other plugins for conflict, works fine in 2.8.
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?
yes, it can not work anymore, the title can not added.
oow, very very thanks (: nice plugin.. :)
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.
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Thanks !
~Rohin
at the time that there is ga I certainly use him.
JP Netherlands
That is a great idea, changing filenames to match the alt tag. Anyone willing to change the code?
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.
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 ?