Everything else including “alt” tags are working fine. Am I missing something? or its an intentional change?
This was an intentional change made in the name of accessibility.
Thanks Drew Jaynes for instant reply. Anyway to add “title” tags automatically while inserting the images into editor?
I had the same question. For some reason the image title appears when I’ve uploaded the image, but after I insert into post, it disappears and I have to re-add it in.
Hopefully there’s an answer to this one.
Thanks!
having the title stay as we put it is very important for those of us in Google News. They don’t go just by alt tag or description to include your image next to your news story.
I found out today with this, they want the title included. I’m confused why the title is listed when we upload and “This was an intentional change made in the name of accessibility.”
Not sure what the accessibility was about.
thankfully, other sites are posting this issue so hopefully WP can address this. it’s definitely a biggie for image heavy sites!
After seeing that not having an Image Title does affect Google News articles, I contacted Big G to see if the WP forum moderator was correct when they stated that Image Titles don’t affect SEO.
They were shocked that that would even be said as Google relies on Image Titles, Alts & Descriptions to properly index.
This is what the WP mod said which made no sense. There’s got to be a way to revert back include Image Titles so they don’t disappear after inserting into post.
It’s an accessibility issue. You should not be relying on title attributes for important information as not all user agents access or render this attribute. If you need to relay important information to visitors, use the caption functionality.
I’m sorry (but not actually sorry) that the tooltip community has felt slighted by this one, but we won’t need to make a change. We made a choice, and this choice on the whole benefits all users and readers, not just those using screenreaders. How often have you moused over an image on a WordPress site and saw “IMG_1234”? One of the lamest things ever. Never again.
Tooltips can still be added by opening the Edit Image modal and inserting something into the title attribute box. The only change is that the “Title” field — which is the name of an image’s attachment page — does not populate the title attribute.
I understand the accessibility issues, but is there a way to add this back in quickly? My client really likes having the title shown when hovering images. I understand, and normally wouldn’t want this to be the default, but there should be a way in the WP 3.5 settings to choose how this is handled. Otherwise I would just like to know where to add this back in.
basically the only way to do this is after you’ve inserted your image into the post article, then you click the edit button the image and add the title there and save.
Yup, it’s so many more steps now for those of us who use a lot of images on our sites.
Unfortunately not an easy way to do this when I’m using the_post_thumbnail in theme files. I have a slider that automatically grabs the images from a post and makes a gallery for them. I can’t seem to figure out how to get the title attribute back in there.
I have wordpress 3.6.1 and I just noticed the same thing, I have over 300 articles in database, and now none of the images show TITLE ! Which is very important for me …
I noticed that whatever I do now, I have duplicate thing, I have 1 title in media library and another one in post edit image – title …
This is outrages ! Is there way to FIX this, as this is not normal behavior.
sadly no as the WP developers let us know that this was their final decision as most people left garbled numbers in the title and they felt it looked bad.
Yeah, I know, many of us with real websites don’t do that, but we seem to be in the minority.
It’s just one more step now.
