Updating Alt and Title Tags on Images

  • When you update alt or title tags in the Media Library it doesn’t update the title and alt tags for images included on posts and pages.

    Whilst this functionality may be required sometimes, I would have thought generally a user would have wanted all instances of the image updated.

    Is there a workaround for this? rather than going through and adding alt and titles for all the images and then doing it in the posts and pages.

    Whilst I could have added them as I initially put them into the Media Manager, they tend to change before the project is finished so it makes sense to leave it until the end.

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  • when an image is inserted into a post manually, the title and alt values are read from database and inserted to the post as text rather than variable. and thus texts are not automatically updated when you change the image title later.

    I coded a plugin (CIO Custom Fields Importer add-on to WP All Import) which can update title, description, and custom fields of both images, pages and posts by importing from a csv file. images are actually stored in posts table as a custom post type called “attachment”. WP all import upload images automatically, and allows you to drag and drop columns from CSV file to construct title/content dynamically during import, and saves the template for future use. so if the information is kept in a spreadsheet, you may run the import again to update the whole website.

    this needs change of workflow though. you will be making changes in a spreadsheet, not in the website directly. it works best when the post content follows a certain pattern, for example, image1, text1, image2, text2.

    Thread Starter powerj

    (@powerj)

    Thanks heaps

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