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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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335 Comments
Install the version 2.6.1 of the plugin and wordpress 3.0.1. I have the problem that only puts sigueintes TITLE and ALT not place. Can you help?
Hi! If my post is in more than 1 category in the post - i can see only first one. Is that right?
Very helpful, lots of useful information, thanks.
hi Vladimir
thank you for the great plugin
all I wanted was a plugin that would replace the image names so it won't show in the tooltip
yours works great
the only problem that i have is for the featured image thumbnail it still displays the real name when i hover in the tooltip
any ideea how can i replace also the featured image tag?
Pretty useful plugin to rank, thanks a lot!
Svaka cast za trud.
Best regards, one of the best of all plugins you can get for SEO.
Love this plugin, but, one MINOR issue...
Only with the Social/Sharing Icons in Google Chrome the script is picking up and inserting `` text into the ALT image description. Then, it picks up this text from the `` and want to include this in the string of text sent to Twitter, for example....
http://bit.ly/9NnHZH
(look in the address bar to see what it wants to post to Twitter)
This problem only seems to exist in Google Chrome. Explorer, Firefox, and Safari all work well.
Any ideas?
This problem only seems to exist in Google Chrome. Explorer, Firefox, and Safari all work well.
Any ideas?
Hi,
Just trying this great plugin, but I'm wondering - sometimes I want to put a certain alt tag in myself (or title), to optimise the image more.
Is there a way for the plugin to differentiate between tags I have put in manually) and others?
Maybe a "ignore string" - ie change the alt tag using plugin unless ALT tag begins XYZ ??
Cheers
Wendy
Thanks for creating this plugin. I just installed it and can't wait to see it in action!
Yeah, I'm a dummy!
All this time I'd been calling the title tag: the alt (alternative text) tag!
( I checked some more images)
Hope I haven't confused anybody - just ignore my last post.
The plugin works exactly as it's supposed to.
Just not to sure what is more important for SEO: the alt or the title of images?
For images the alt tag is more important than title. But title is the next best important thing after alt ;)
Seems like there is some sort of mix-up going on with this plugin:
Although when viewing the source it READS correctly; when you hover over an image it displays the Title, not the Alt description.
Until Vladimir fixes it:
Just swap the ALT description for Title, and vice-vera.
Everything now displays correctly - except when viewing the source (which is now back to front). This might not be so good because this is what the search engines read!
HELP!
Hey me too!
After 1/2 a dozen goes I finally downloaded Version 2.6 from the link on this page - not the image.
Could not get the latest version using automatic upgrade, or from WP.org - kept downloading previous versions.
Vladimir may have forgotten to update some of these links so they do point to the new version?
Anyone can report improved traffic from images.google.com????
thanks
The latest version of the plugin (2.6) works fine with wordpress 3.0.1. I downloaded the package 4 times to get the correct version ... At first it was still downloading the old version (2.4.4).
Thanks for the great SEO Tips and Advice, my blog needs all the help I can get
SEO Tips and Advice
To provide greater clarity here is a copy stating that the upgrade was successful.......
"The update process is starting. This process may take awhile on some hosts, so please be patient.
Enabling Maintenance mode…
Updating Plugin SEO Friendly Images (1/1)
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-image.zip…
Unpacking the update…
Installing the latest version…
Removing the old version of the plugin…
Plugin upgraded successfully.
SEO Friendly Images updated successfully. Show DetailsHide Details.
Disabling Maintenance mode…
All updates have been completed.
Actions: Return to Plugins page | Return to WordPress Updates"
-steve
Great plugin,
.....but when i do automatic upgrade....which states that it was successful....
i still have wp asking me to update the plugin.
Even after I've just done it.
Any suggestions to fix this issue?
thx,
-Steve
I'm getting the same thing, and even after the "plugin successfully upgraded" message I see that I'm still on version 2.4.4 and the ALT attribute is still not overridden by the %title tag, meaning I still have to use a secondary plugin to remove the TITLE attribute.
Any idea if being able to override the WordPress TITLE attribute will be available in a future release?
I see the problem, and its caused by WordPress not serving the latest version but 2.4.4 for some reason. I've updated the plugin to 2.5.1 so see if that helps.
Override title option will be coming in next update
yes,.......that worked on the 2nd re-install.
Thank You,
-steve
Just updated the plugin to version 2.5
* Fixed bug that sometimes prevented overriding the ALT tag
* Added support for %tags, replacing post tags (thanks Gerben Tiemens!)
Vladimir, you should change your version number in the version chk file. It is still @2.0
Then problem of Steve will probably be solved.
Hello,
Nice plugin, nice work. Works for me with 3.0.1.
Feature request. A really nice feature would be to extend the %title and %category with the %tag of the post. This enhances all the images to be the same as the post. Which will be nice for google images when you have a photoblog like me. See link of my blog, why :).
Thanks!
Getiem
Compatibility issue: In the wordpress plugin library your plugin still states its compatible up to 2.8.4.
Change this, so you get more attention :)
FYI
* Version: 2.4.4
* Author: Vladimir Prelovac
* Last Updated: 418 days ago
* Requires WordPress Version: 2.0 or higher
* Compatible up to: 2.8.4
* Downloaded: 174,929 times
Hi,
Do you expect that this plugin will become compatible with the latest version of wordpress?
Thanks,
Dirkjan
The plugin is compatible with latest version of WordPress.
Hi,
Really nice plugin but it doesn't work for me... nothing is replaced.
It is compatible with the last version of WordPress ?
Thanks in advance
May be adding tags for the image will be rather good idea?
In the previous post I'he mean post tags for the image alt
It's great , i love it . thx man
Hi there,
I'm having a little trouble getting this plugin to work with images that I upload directly to WordPress and then insert in a post. It works fine for pictures that I'm embedding from my Flickr account, but when I upload a picture directly to WordPress, it does not replace the title tag with the title of the post like it does for the alt tag.
For an example, see this test post: http://meganmorris.net/blog/2010/09/21/test-post/
I uploaded the image to WordPress and didn't change the alt or title tags; I simply left them as WordPress automatically created them so the plugin could do the work. While I have the plugin settings to change the ALT attribute to %title and the TITLE attribute to %title as well, you'll see by inspecting that photo that only the ALT attribute has changed.
Am I missing something? Or can you not make the WordPress TITLE attribute change to the title of the post?
Hi Megan
I see both the title and alt tag changed on the image?
Hi Vladimir,
Well, I had to install a second plugin to remove the title tag completely, which is what you were seeing. I deactivated that plugin, so if you look now you'll see that the title attribute is not being overridden, despite me telling it to in your plugin.
Thanks for the help!!
Thankyou, I find it as long time.