Gutenberg Image Block missing “Image Title Attribute” Field

You can still get at that by editing the image with full advanced options. Click on the pencil on the editor bar for the image and you get at the same view from Classic.

The disparity is that we’re using the same name for different things in Gutenberg, but Advanced Options in Gutenberg means FOR Gutenberg, not for this specific block type.

Then there is a bug. When I click on the pencil icon it opens the “Select or Upload Media” window. It does not give an option to edit the photo.

I don’t understand why this was marked as resolved.

It is still impossible to add the Image Title Attribute in Gutenberg for an image in a post or page using the Image Block.

When you add an image and click on the pencil icon in the image block, the Add/Edit Media window opens and the “Image Title Attribute” field is not available in that window.

If you try to edit an image html and add the title tag (title=”example”) you get a message to resolve an error. So it won’t let you add it manually with html either.

The Image Title Attribute field is not available for an image in the media library so you can’t add it there either (and wouldn’t want to since it could change for each post).

And, again, I’m not referring to the image title or alt-text. This is the field called “Image Title Attribute” that was under Advanced Options when editing an image in the Classic editor.

It was marked resolved because it is resolved. You can edit the attributes still.

This is the field called “Image Title Attribute” that was under Advanced Options when editing an image in the Classic editor.

It’s called “Title” – same thing.

You are incorrect. It isn’t the same thing.

Per Mike Schroder in the Slack Making WordPress #core-media channel, there was a decision to discontinue support for the Image Title Attribute field in Gutenberg. You can see his reply when I posted about this issue there. Take a look at the discussion.

I am glad Mike is looking into the matter. Removing the Image Title Attribute field and not allowing an image title tag in the image html (title=”example”) will negatively affect businesses and bloggers currently utilizing it for multiple purposes, the main being SEO.

Sorry, I thought they did the same thing. At this point then it’s not an alpha/beta issue but a design change in Gutenberg issue. Which sucks, I hear you, but that means it’s a discussion for the development…

I THINK this is the right ticket? https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/11054

It’s a little hard to find this specific issue.

I’m not sure that is the right ticket. It’s difficult because of the confusion caused by two fields people are calling title. One is for a file name and the other creates the html title attribute.

That ticket is really for the image title (file name) and only mentions the attribute in the discussion. It doesn’t really draw attention or focus to the attribute field.

It would be great if there was a ticket specifically for the attribute. Since I’m not a developer, I’m not on github and therefore can’t create a ticket.

You can make a Github account to open a ticket though! You don’t have to be a developer, just someone who can clearly articulate the problem.

Cannot see how this is ‘Resolved’. It is definitely a problem. I’ve just had to convert all my Gutenberg image blocks back to HTML to manually add the title attributes so that a mouse hover will get the title bubble. I needed this so that users could see what acronym/logos stood for, before following a link. I tried re-importing images prelabelled with both ‘alt’ and ‘title’ attributes but that did not help.

This should be noted as a fundamental flaw, not for outsiders to have to dive into Github for. SEO recognition (lack of) may be an issue along with this – I haven’t delved that deep (yet).

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by moonhopper.

No news on this?

Still the same as far as I know. Image Title Attribute and other image html tags are no longer being supported, including the one Pinterest uses for pin descriptions (data-pin-description).

What’s worse is that they made it so WordPress will strip those tags out of your images when you convert existing posts from Classic to Blocks – without warning or a way to save your content.

It was a sad day when WordPress decided it was okay to intentionally remove content, people’s intellectual property. A very sad day indeed.

I’m closing this.

No one ‘removed’ your intellectual property. The hyperbole is unnecessary. The content is still in your database.

We close posts in alpha/beta when a trac ticket has been opened. I’d flagged the incorrect one, however @reneedobbs has ben encouraged to make one themselves. I believe everyone would greatly appreciate if someone who can articulate it well would do so. I can copy/pate, but I’m unable to answer the intricacies of the usage and the problems, so I’d be a poor substitute.