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Image Alt Text Generator

by Vijay Prajapati · SEO

Automatically generate SEO-friendly image alt text in WordPress using the free Imagga API.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews

Health

C 61/100

Stale · Few reviews

Active installs

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not reported yet

Momentum

-3%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “accessibility”, “alt text” and “image optimization” 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.

How scoring works →
61 Health · C
Maintenance 44/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

61 health vs 65 average across 2,230 SEO plugins

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
1.4y ago
Added
2025-05-26 · 1 yr old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
6.8.12
Requires PHP
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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.

75 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 53/100

Updated 514 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.8.12, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 514 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 27 May 2025 · 525 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-3% vs prior 30d
02 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 116 · peaks are release surges

542 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #50,200 to #69,500, alongside the other plugins with fewer than 10 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 1 Nov 2026.

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

612 Nov 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

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

1.4y ago

latest release · v1.1 · 6 Jun 2025

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 6 Jun 20251.0 · 26 May 2025

Estimated active installs

wp.org publishes an install count once a plugin has enough of them. This one has none yet.

not reported
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wp.org reports no install count for this plugin yet.

Install history since 26 May 2025

<102 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ pavanwappnet
    1.4y ago

    Nice work

    Read on wp.org ↗

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

4 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Automatically generate SEO-friendly image alt text in WordPress using the free Imagga API."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use it"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 2 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,615 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "image optimization" does not.

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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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Image Alt Text Generator: no active install count reported, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/image-alt-text-generator

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