Title: Update Image Tag Alt Attribute
Author: mauimarketing
Published: <strong>October 20, 2015</strong>
Last modified: August 4, 2023

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# update-alt-attribute

 By [mauimarketing](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mauimarketing/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-alt-attribute/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-alt-attribute/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-alt-attribute/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/update-alt-attribute/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of July 27, 2023 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[It work fine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-work-fine-3/)󠁿

 [becaneweb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/becaneweb/) July 5, 2023

Thank you !

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### 󠀁[Works, but not good if you use å, ä ,ö.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-but-not-good-if-you-use-a-a-o/)󠁿

 [65Erik65](https://profiles.wordpress.org/65erik65/) January 11, 2022

It did update all empty ALT-tags but it doesn’t used chars like å, ä and ö. It replaced
them with a and o. Edit: This plugin use the filename to create ALT-tags, not the
post title.

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### 󠀁[Beautiful Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautiful-plugin-104/)󠁿

 [Sirisha Sharma](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bestonlinedeals/) July 20, 2021

Beautiful Plugin, Just updated all my alt tags in just 2 secs… Time Saviour…

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### 󠀁[It worked](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-worked-76/)󠁿

 [Celestel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celestelombard/) July 6, 2021

actually it broke my site

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### 󠀁[Needs Work, Adds Menu Item](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needs-work-adds-menu-item/)󠁿

 [Clicknathan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clicknathan/) February 8, 2018

Could definitely use some improvements through an update. The good part, it updates
your empty alt tags. The bad parts: the list it generates isn’t clickable so you
still have to go search for the images to tweak their content, the alt tags often
have spaces removed, so a post titled “My Summer Vacation” seems to throw “mysummervacation”
onto associated images as the alt text, and finally, instead of placing this in 
Settings or Tools (like the screenshot shows), it adds a whole new “Maui Marketing”
area to navigation bar in WordPress, which is unnecessary.

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### 󠀁[Lots of Potential](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lots-of-potential-6/)󠁿

 [douglaskarr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/douglaskarr/) April 27, 2017

The plugin is concatenating the terms into the alt tag when it’s multiple words.
So “red dog” becomes “reddog”. A whitelist/blacklist terms feature would be great
so that you could skip images with filenames like “screenshot”. An ajax edit option
would be great on the output list of media that’s been updated. The plugin stalled
on a large site that I tested it on, never getting past “Loading…”. Would be worth
it to chunk the output by media ID.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Update Image Tag Alt Attribute” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mauimarketing ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mauimarketing/)
 *   [ Ben Lee ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jobnavajo/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/update-alt-attribute/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/update-alt-attribute/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/update-alt-attribute/)
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## Meta

 *  Version **2.4.6**
 *  Last updated **3 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.9.13**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
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