TheJer

Still trying to figure out a way to work with this. I messed around in the wp_posts table, but with no luck. It didn’t seem like any of the menus were actually all linked together and easy to manage.

I’m guessing I might be out of luck on this?

Well I got it figured out. I’m hoping that simple regular expressions wont slow down the site in the long run. I’m not entirely sure why, but calling the_title_attribute would not return what I wanted. So I ended up using the_title and creating a little function called get_alt.

function get_alt( $str ) {
$pattern = '/alt=\'(.*?)\'/';
preg_match($pattern, $str, $match);
return $match[1];
}

$match looks like
[0] => alt=’whateveryouwerelookingfor’
[1] => whateveryouwerelookingfor

My PHP/regex knowledge is somewhat limited, but I think its because I’m actually matching for the alt= part, but the saving whats in between the ” and that turns up in [1] spot in the array?

Either way, problem solved!

Previous was obviously the wrong word to use haha. I should have said ‘the premise is to make the alt text the same as what the page used to be called.’ Either way, thank you for the help. I had been using the_title to grab the name, but I’ll play around with that and see if I can figure it out.

So I discovered you can find all the menu information in the wp_posts table, but I’ve barely used SQL, so it is a lot of info sitting in that database and I’m not really sure what everything means.

Anyone have any pointers on what I could look for to find the custom menus? I’m sure if I knew what to look for, I could probably find it and figure it out.

Yes I do understand what the alt text is supposed to be used for (unless it has somehow changed in the past few years?). I guess I just worded that badly because the image is the name of the page just in image form.

Okay, the code is located here

Hopefully something has worked with something like this before?