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Fix Alt Text

by Steven Ayers · SEO

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Manage alt text site-wide easily with Fix Alt Text. You can also force users to use alt text when adding images in Gutenberg and Classic editors.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
64 Health · C
Maintenance 48/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

64 health vs 64 average across 1,223 SEO plugins

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.

76 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 56/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 67/100

To rank higher: Last updated 481 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+16% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

474

now · peak 1.7K

45930d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Fix Alt Text · #5912 you AI Alt Text Generato · #4628 Auto Image Attribute · #425 Image Alt Text · #2205

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · Aug 26

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.

459per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

1.3y ago

latest release · v1.9.1

31

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.9.1 · 1.3y ago1.9.0 · 2.0y ago1.8.1 · 2.0y ago1.8.0 · 2.0y ago1.7.0 · 2.4y ago1.6.1 · 2.9y ago1.6.0 · 3.1y ago1.5.0 · 3.1y ago1.4.4 · 3.2y ago1.4.3 · 3.3y ago1.4.2 · 3.4y ago1.4.1 · 3.4y ago1.4.0 · 3.4y ago1.3.9 · 3.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.9 96%
Older / other versions 3.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,420 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.9.1
Last updated
1.3y ago
Added
2022-02-05 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
5.3
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP
7.4

Recent reviews

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  1. Fari
    12mo ago

    I need to say that this plugin has been a game changer and such a huge help! Our company is responsible for many WP sites assigned to different users with different skill levels. We are on top of keeping Accessible sites and guarantee those to our clients. However, some of our users tend to forget Alt Text or fail to keep consistency, so the battle to re-add, find & replace, as well as just locate in general has finally been completed! This tool scans the whole site (or you can limit it), and it has been a big help in finding the same image on multiple pages and fixing, as opposed to the AI alt text plugins that only give the image/jpeg title (which is so bad). The Force Alt Text feature has been truly a blessing! Now our sites have been reporting consistently with 0 Alt Text issues! Thanks so much for this plugin!

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  2. Websites Built For You
    1.3y ago

    This is a great little plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin, and does it very well!Fixes a very real world problem we had.Thanks guys.

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  3. 61pixels
    1.9y ago

    Seems to do exactly what it says. I just tested it out for a client. Love that inline edit that actually updates the text in the post it was embedded. Also love that it makes the ALT text required when uploading an image (even if there are ways around it). Great job.

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  4. avi sato
    2.0y ago

    this is an incredibly useful tool for quickly solving the issue of missing alt tags on a site. i’ve tried plenty of others and this is leaps and bounds better than anything else i’ve seen.

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  5. kchez
    3.5y ago

    Fix Alt Text is an essential plugin to help make our sites more accessible and the author is dedicated and very responsive to crushing “bugs” that creep in and get reported. This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by kchez.

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  6. kica
    3.8y ago

    Crash my website (unavailable, high CPU usage) at the moment i activate the plugin. I had to connect in ftp to delete the plugin manually to restore the functionnality.

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  7. SnappaGuy
    4.0y ago

    Does everything it’s supposed to and saved me a lot of time, thanks to the author.

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  8. cebln
    4.2y ago

    Instead of automattic ALT tag filler plugins, which rarely work well, this plugin offers a very good overview of missing and existing ALT tags with the possibility to edit them manually right from the plugin, without annoying searches in the media library. This topic was modified 4 years ago by cebln. This topic was modified 4 years ago by cebln.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Romanian 4%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-06-27 900+ → 1K+ up after 4 days in tier
  2. 2024-06-23 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-06-22 900+ → 1K+ up after 2 days in tier
  4. 2024-06-20 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-06-19 900+ → 1K+ up after 3 days in tier
  6. 2024-06-16 1K+ → 900+ down after 7 days in tier
  7. 2024-06-09 900+ → 1K+ up after 31 days in tier
  8. 2024-05-09 800+ → 900+ up after 59 days in tier

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