wp_get_attachment_image – alt and title attributes missing

  • Ben Huson

    (@husobj)


    15 years, 4 months ago

    The wp_get_attachment_image function does not populate the alt attribute for the image tag.

    I would suggest that the image caption (post_excerpt) should be the image’s alt tag content and there should be a title attribute which uses the image title (post_title)?

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  • boquiabierto

    (@boquiabierto)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Taken from the depreceated get_attachment_innerHTML function you could meanwhile add something like

    $attachment_id = (int) $attachment_id;
if ( !$post = & get_post($attachment_id) )
 return false;
$title = attribute_escape($post->post_title);
$alt =  attribute_escape($post->post_content);
...
$html = '<img src="'.attribute_escape($src).'" '.$hwstring.'class="attachment-'.attribute_escape($size).'" title="'.attribute_escape($title).'" alt="'.attribute_escape($alt).'" />';

    to the wp_get_attachment_image function. Works well for me but’s a dirty hack and this options schould be implemented in the core of future versions…

    pengu

    (@pengu)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    that works pretty well boquiabierto, except that in the Media editor, the field that is listed as “will be used for alt text” doesn’t correspond to post_content. using post_excerpt works a treat though.

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