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  • From what I’ve read on here, moderators are saying that WP 3.5 intentionally made it so Image titles would disappear after posting your image to an article.

    They’ve said this doesn’t affect SEO, but if you’re on Google News, it AFFECTS SEO. Google likes to have Image Titles, Alts & descriptions so if there’s any way of getting this fixed or a work around would be greatly appreciated.

    Image Titles are actually very very important and I can’t figure out why it would be though to not include them. Most people aren’t even going to be aware that this is happening. I didn’t until yesterday when my images weren’t appearing with my Google News articles.

    Upon contacting Google, they seemed rather confused that a moderator on WP would state that Image Titles won’t affect SEO. Even Google states that Image Titles are important.

    If anyone has a solution, please share as more sites are beginning to report problems with this part of the WP update.

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  • 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.

    http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18984

    Thread Starter gooma2

    (@gooma2)

    I understand what you’re saying, but the fact that even Google has said that you need to have the Image Title attribute for proper image indexing proves that this is definitely an important thing.

    I’m just trying to see if there’s a way for those of us that this affects to find a workaround. For Google News this is a must to have the Title Image attribute.

    Tooltips can still be added by opening the Edit Image modal and inserting something into the title attribute box.

    I have always been polite when I post on these support forums, but I don’t even feel like being polite to people who hate certain features so intensely even though there might be thousands of people who want that feature. So here’s my reply to all those who feel like tooltips are a disgrace and that the new media manager is actually an improvement.

    First of all, I read the ticket on the link esmi provided – http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18984

    What I find most striking in the ticket conversations is the apparent personal hatred toward the usage of tooltips.

    “How often have you moused over an image on a WordPress site and saw “IMG_1234″? One of the lamest things ever. Never again.”

    To the guy “nacin” in the ticket who made this “Never again” comment, hats off to your personal hatred towards an issue that affects thousands of people! You have now screwed everyone who wants to use tooltips because YOU don’t like it and think it’s lame. How about giving a choice for those who use tooltips responsibly? Like a checkbox that says “Use the title of this image as the tooltip” or something like that in the media settings.

    “Tooltips can still be added by opening the Edit Image modal and inserting something into the title attribute box.”

    So people using WordPress for websites with lots of images (basically an image-heavy website) who would like to have their image titles as the tooltip for the pictures will now have to do it manually for each and every picture. Thanks for thinking that WordPress is only used by people who upload one or two pictures a day!

    I upload over 150 pictures everyday. I’d like you to try to manually add the tooltip to each of those pictures everyday.

    From what I’ve read about how the Google crawler works, it reads through the “alt” of an image for its search indexing. Umm, hey guys, here’s an idea that I personally hate: WordPress does not automatically populate the “Alt” field of images that are uploaded. How about fixing that? How about having an option in the media settings that says “Copy image Title field into Alt field?” For those of us who don’t just add a picture named “IMG_1234” to our websites, but rather go through a lot of effort to name pictures properly, this would be a great help!

    Thanks for changing the whole media upload process and forcing it down our throats, but no thanks. I don’t like it. I love WordPress and I do not wish to bite the hand that feeds me, but this last update has left me feeling a little disappointed.

    Take care!

    Adios!

    WordPress does not automatically populate the “Alt” field of images that are uploaded. How about fixing that?

    It doesn’t need fixing. It is left blank be default as some purely decorative images should use a null (alt="") text as recommended by best practice.

    @esmi

    Thank you for ignoring my entire message and replying to just one part toward the end. I guess that’s the only part for which the developers have a reasonable answer.

    Oh, and also, thank you developers for filling the entire screen with the media manager so that people like me who need to see the post title in the background for reference while “Titling” and “Alting” our images, have to now struggle while doing so.

    I can’t wait for someone to make a plugin that will bring the old media uploader back!

    Adios!

    Given the tone of your previous post, ignoring large chunks of it seemed to be the lesser of two evils.

    Closing topic.

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