Auto Alt Text

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At the current install trend, crossing 5K+ in roughly 126 days.

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1. ★★★★★ Nicscott01

   3mo ago

   This is the kind of plugin that should be baked-in to WP Core. Bring your own AI key, and generate the text w/ a prompt. WP CLI to do bulk processing. Lightweight, no frills and no extra branding. Bravo!

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2. ★★★★★ neotrope

   4mo ago

   OMG! BRAVO! We have a couple of news portals where we import news items weekly from our sister sites as “national” news items, and we use tool to auto pull local featured image from the image embedded into the sister site content, but has never pulled alt tags — stupidly I only noticed this recently in auditing some stuff, and went #doh. I didn’t want to pay some inflated fee for something so simple — in my case just applying story title to the image alt tag. Your plugin does it wonderfully, and you have my thanks big time! Woo!!!!!

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3. ★★★★★ wriper

   1.2y ago

   Hi, this plugin is exactly what I needed. Thank you for option to connect own API keys. Only thing for perfection is that button “in editor” is not working for us. Only manually uploaded images are texted also button in media library from sidebar is working but button “in article grid view” media library is doing nothing. It would be great if you can check on this as we could text also images that are added with other plugins like Instant Images that way. Tried to disable all plugins and theme. Didn’t help Edit: didn’t work also on another hosting This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by wriper. This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by wriper.

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4. ★★★★★ harryfear

   1.4y ago

   Awesome, but needs queue system for bulk processing large quantities of existing media items

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5. ★★★★★ chillmen

   1.5y ago

   Simple to use, i’m using with Openai API, very cheap compared to other solutions.Thanks a lot for creating this plugin.If you have time, adding caption generation, would be great.

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6. ★★★★★ Pwoli

   1.6y ago

   Realy love it. Thanks for making this great plugin!

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7. ★★★★★ piracymoney

   2.3y ago

   I just wish it could tag existing images that I have in my media library that don’t have alt texts, I have about 1,200 that I would need to manually reupload 🙁

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8. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   2.5y ago

   Easy plugin to add the alt text to our images. You only need to add the API to openAI (or azure). Thank you!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.8.2 Improve compatibility scoping vendor dependencies 2.8.2
2. — Version 2.8.1 Update available Claude models 2.8.1
3. — Version 2.8.0 Implement WP CLI commands for generating alt text 2.8.0
4. — Version 2.7.0 Migrate to the Responses API from the Chat Completion API for OpenAI Remove o1 Mini deprecated model 2.7.0
5. — Version 2.6.2 Replace hardcoded Openai model with the one selected from the user Update phpunit Update Vite 2.6.2
6. — Version 2.6.1 Avoid to truncate alt text too long 2.6.1

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 Auto Alt Text <= 2.5.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-12-06 CVE-2025-62866 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.5.2 Patched in 2.5.3

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-06-16 3K+ → 4K+ up after 119 days in tier
2. 2026-02-17 2K+ → 3K+ up after 114 days in tier
3. 2025-10-26 1K+ → 2K+ up after 184 days in tier
4. 2025-04-25 900+ → 1K+ up after 16 days in tier
5. 2025-04-09 800+ → 900+ up after 41 days in tier
6. 2025-02-27 700+ → 800+ up after 13 days in tier
7. 2025-02-14 600+ → 700+ up after 8 days in tier
8. 2025-02-06 500+ → 600+ up after 12 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).

• Bulk Auto Image Alt Text (Alt tag, Alt attribute) optimizer (image SEO) 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 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
• Media Library Helper — Bulk edit image ALT, caption & description 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
• Seo Optimized Images 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• SOOZ – AI for SEO – Bulk Generate Focus Keyphrases, Metadata, Alt Text (SEO Autopilot) 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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Auto Alt Text: 4K+ active installs, 5.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/auto-alt-text