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SEO Friendly Images

by Vladimir Prelovac · Admin & Utilities

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SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images improving traffic from search engines.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Open vulnerability

Health

D 41/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Open vulnerability

Active installs

10K+

≈19K estimated

Momentum

+16%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “admin”, “google” and “images” 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.

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41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 54/100
Support 70/100
Security 63/100

41 health vs 56 average across 5,896 Admin & Utilities plugins

10K+

Active installs

≈19K estimated

1.9M

Total downloads

since 2008 · 0.5% still active

3.2/5

Rating

3.0 on wp.org · 59 reviews

+16%

902

Downloads · 30d

category median +6%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.5%

of downloads still active

At least 10K of 1.9M lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,189 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 59 reviews

Read on wp.org ↗
5★
27 4★
1 3★
2 2★
4 1★
25

Details

Version
3.0.5
Last updated
8.9y ago
Added
2008-03-04 · 18 yrs old
Requires WP
2.7
Tested up to
4.1.42
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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3260 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 4/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.1.42; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 70/100

3.0★ over 59 reviews, smoothed to 3.50★

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3260 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+16% vs prior 30d
4731 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.2K · peaks are release surges

91431 Oct 2026

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

SEO Friendly Images · #1427youAdd From Server · #685Revision Control · #847WP Admin UI Customiz · #1073

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

4131 Oct 2026

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.

9131 Oct 2026

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 94% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.0 94%
Older / other versions 6.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10K–20K ≈19K

Crossed into this band 59 days ago and the previous band took 22 months to cross, so the real count is still just under 20K.

Install history since 11 Mar 2021

10K31 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ paullamb777
    9.2y ago

    This plugin totally removed and erased all advertising and links. I had to start all over again and download all new advertising banners and affiliate links. Do not use this with a new version of WordPress unless it has been used with success on your website theme! Please make sure it is 100% tested on your theme, Otherwise you could run into the same problems I have.

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  2. ★★★★★ darren823
    9.3y ago

    This plug in is crap. Doesn’t so what they say and when I activate it my Galleries go to the craper. It actually removes Alt & Title from my images.Complete waste of time DELETE it.

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  3. ★★★★★ JDTravel
    9.6y ago

    Works fine but not compatible with php7 and the free version doesn’t seem to be supported anymore therfore I’m looking for an alternative.

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  4. ★★★★★ leeglasgow
    9.6y ago

    Please remove the full Bootstrap css file and use just the styles you need for your plugin. The BS file changes the whole admin experience.

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  5. ★★★★★ JennyLili
    9.9y ago

    Really shit dont work This topic was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by JennyLili.

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  6. ★★★★★ FascinationDesign
    10.1y ago

    Doesn’t seem to work at all with 4.6.1

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  7. ★★★★★ fungen9x
    10.1y ago

    its only creat alt for image in post, but when i check feature image on homepage, it has no alt attribute

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  8. ★★★★★ royalmicer
    10.4y ago

    Does not work and have not been updated for over a year. No response from support either

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 3.0.5 Fixed XSS issue (credit to Ryan Satterfield) 3.0.5
  2. — Version 3.0.4 Fixed default options 3.0.4
  3. — Version 3.0.3 Fixed warning messages 3.0.3
  4. — Version 3.0.2 Fixed warning message 3.0.2
  5. — Version 3.0.1 Made clear the plugin works by modyfying the image during output, and not changing images in the post editor or in media library as some people expected Debug notices 3.0.1
  6. — Version 3.0 Major rewrite and optimization of the plugin New tags to use in ALT and TITLE attributes All reported bugs fixed WordPress 4.1 and up compatible 3.0

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 open vulnerability affects the current version (3.0.5). 1 of 2 disclosed are patched.

  1. Open Medium · 6.4 SEO Friendly Images <= 3.0.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2026-02-18 CVE-2026-39665 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.0.5 No patch available
  2. Patched Medium · 6.1 SEO Friendly Images <= 3.0.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2015-01-03 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.0.4 Patched in 3.0.5

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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 75 languages, 7 at 90% or more · development strings

Dutch 100%
English (Canada) 100%
Italian 100%
Japanese 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Spanish (Venezuela) 100%
Swedish 50%
German 33%
German (Formal) 33%
Croatian 29%
Romanian 17%
Serbian 17%
Cebuano 13%
Dutch (Formal) 13%
English (Australia) 13%
English (South Africa) 13%
Azerbaijani 11%
Hebrew 11%
Assamese 9%
Basque 9%
Czech 9%
English (New Zealand) 9%
English (UK) 9%

Plus 51 more locales with partial translations.

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

5 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

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

  • ✓ Says what it does "SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images improving traffic from s..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 6 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 6 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 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,444 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "admin", "google" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-09-03 20K+ → 10K+ down after 647 days in tier
  2. 2024-11-25 30K+ → 20K+ down after 445 days in tier
  3. 2023-09-07 40K+ → 30K+ down after 245 days in tier
  4. 2023-01-05 50K+ → 40K+ down after 291 days in tier
  5. 2022-03-20 60K+ → 50K+ down after 307 days in tier
  6. 2021-05-17 70K+ → 60K+ down after 199 days in tier
  7. 2020-10-30 80K+ → 70K+ down after 84 days in tier
  8. 2020-08-07 90K+ → 80K+ down after 41 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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SEO Friendly Images: 10K+ active installs, 3.0★ (59 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/seo-image

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