Image Alt Tags

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In order to understand what is happening, can you tell us where the ALT tags originally came from? Were they added manually via the WordPress editor, or did they come from the meta data of the image itself? If they came from the meta data of the image, would you be able to send us an example to [email protected]?

I’m looking forward hearing from you!

All images had ALT tags on them. These are critical for SEO. See “Alt Text” area in this screenshot of an image details page. https://prnt.sc/fbl9eg

How do I access all of the compressed images to add their alt tags to them? This is urgent.

Following up… ??

Your compressed images work in the exact same way as uncompressed images in WordPress. You can add alt text in the exact same way, ie. through the Attachment Details editor when clicking on an image in your Media library.

If you configured all your Alt Text for images in WordPress itself, then the plugin shouldn’t change any of that.
All of the Alt Text that you edit in WordPress is saved to the WordPress database, and the Compress JPEG & PNG images plugin doesn’t touch that when compressing images.

I’ve just verified that by disabling the plugin, adding one new image, and editing the alt text of the image in the WordPress Attachment Details editor. After that, I enabled the plugin and compressed the image. After compression the alt text was still there. Both in the WordPress editor and on the page itself.

In your latest screenshot I can see that there is an alt text configured for that specific image. Are you experiencing that the values for the alt text in the WordPress editor were gone after compressing your images, or that they are there, but the SEM rush report is not finding them?

Thank you for your response.
Here are the errors: https://prnt.sc/fcb9u9
As you can see the errors are ONLY on images that have the size dimensions in the title name – the images that have been resized by TinyPNG.

Now in this screenshot –> https://prnt.sc/fcbaae you can see that I cannot find any of those images. Here I searched with the 60×60 parameters from the image name. No results.

All images pre-optimization had alt tags on them and I was receiving no errors.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Additionally – I found this exact image on our front page and it is not showing any alt text upon inspection –> https://prnt.sc/fcbbjp

Finally – here is a screenshot of the original image that shows it had Alternative Text in it prior to compression: https://prnt.sc/fcbcdi

The 60×60 in the image name is not something that our plugin creates. WordPress creates different image sizes for images that you upload. One of these image sizes for you seems to be 60×60. The plugin simply compresses each image size that you configure to be compressed in the Media settings. It doesn’t rename any files or create any new files.

To give you an example, if you upload an image named “Image.jpg” to your WordPress site, and you have WordPress configured to create a 60×60 thumbnail for each image, then WordPress will create a file “Image.jpg” in your uploads folder as well as a file called “Image-60×60.jpg”. In WordPress you can’t find “Image-60×60.jpg” when searching because it’s merely a resized version of the image “Image.jpg”. You will therefore only be able to find back “Image.jpg”. This is all standard WordPress functionality, and not related to our plugin. It is exactly the same with our plugin enabled or disabled. The plugin merely compresses images that WordPress creates, using the exact same filenames as WordPress created.

What happens if you disable our plugin, upload a new image, give it an alt text, and use the image on a page where a 60×60 image size is displayed? Do you then see the alt tags for the newly uploaded image on your webpage?