Alt Text Magic – Generate descriptive alt text (alt attribute, alt tag) for accessibility and SEO optimization
by Minegap LLC · Uncategorized
Automatically generate descriptive alternative text for images upon upload in your media library. Make your website more fully accessible.
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Health
D 49/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈160 estimated
Momentum
+32%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “accessibility”, “alt text” and “alternative text” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
49 health vs 58 average across 25,738 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.7%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 5.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,771 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 5 reviews to 2024-05-24Reviewers say the auto-generated alt text works as advertised and saves real time on bulk uploads, though some want SEO keyword and length controls, and one calls the credit pricing far too steep for smaller sites.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 896 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.5.14; the current branch is 6.8
3.8★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.07★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 896 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| accessibility your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| alt text your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| alternative text your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| generator your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| machine learning your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “accessibility”, “alt text” and “alternative text” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 325 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
3.7y ago
latest release · v1.0.6 · 8 Mar 2023
8
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 62% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Minegap LLC2.4y ago
We made this plugin, and it’s awesome!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ yeiouabigail3.6y ago
I use Alt Text Magic on my e-commerce website. I’m uploading a mix of photos for product pages, blog posts, marketing content, etc. I appreciate that any image I upload is automatically given Alt text! Most of the time the generated text is pretty accurate, though I typically tweak it a little because I want to describe my products (framed artwork) in a specific way. Still, it’s much faster and easier to tweak existing content than it is to write the full description myself! I’ve upgraded to the professional plan at $5/mo so that when I have large batches of product photos to add I don’t run out of credits mid-stream, though there’s also a way to check your library and add alt text to any images that are missing it, as well as a log of recent alt text generated and which images it was added to. They’ve thought of everything! Leave no alt text blank!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ nina28133.6y ago
I really enjoy the plugin. It worked just as advertised. I do wish there was more functionality to add an SEO keyword in or give it a length guideline. For example it might say “laptop with blue text stating ‘X'” but it doesn’t have any context to it if it was a decorative piece or any connection to the SEO keyword of the article. Overall, still impressed
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Gary Thorn3.7y ago
The pricing model for this plugin is absurd. Perhaps makes sense for large agencies with money to burn but the credits for this simple task costs more than the credits for advanced cloud caching tools, image cdns, even many cloud based hosting companies. Perhaps worth it at bulk prices, but certainly not on the smaller end.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ trestledoor3.7y ago
Works as advertised. This saves my agency a lot of time when uploading a lot of images.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
3 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Automatically generate descriptive alternative text for images upon upload in your media library. Make your..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 833 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("accessibility", "generator", "machine learning" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-15 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-14 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-06-11 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2026-06-06 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-05 200+ → 100+ down after 9 days in tier
- 2026-05-27 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-05-25 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-24 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Alt Text Tools 800+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A -
Auto Image Attributes From Filename With Bulk Updater (Add Alt Text, Image Title For Image SEO) 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP Accessibility 60K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
SEO Optimized Images 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Auto Alt Text 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
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