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Description
If you have a large number of images in your WordPress media library and are concerned about updating their ALT tags, captions, descriptions or titles, worry no more. This plugin allows you to easily modify, delete, or update these elements with just a few clicks directly from the media library page in your WordPress dashboard.
This plugin is the perfect solution to update metadata for multiple images without visiting each edit page. Accessing the WordPress media library page lets you easily view the existing images’ alt tags, captions, descriptions and titles. The plugin also identifies the images without an assigned ALT tag, caption, or description, enabling you to update them quickly and easily with just a few clicks.
On-page SEO is crucial in boosting your website’s SEO score, and assigning proper image ALT tags to every image on your website is critical. With the help of this plugin, you can quickly identify images with empty or blank ALT tags, blank captions or descriptions in your media library and update them to enhance your SEO score.
Features
Add/edit/update the image titles, ALT tag, caption & description with one click directly from WordPress Media Library
Search for a specific SEO keyword assigned to your images as an alt tag, caption or description.
Search for blank or empty ALT tags, captions and descriptions and update/edit as needed.
Sort media library images by ALT tag, image caption or image Description.
Bulk edit image ALT tag or alt attribute
Bulk edit image title
Bulk edit image caption
Bulk edit image description
Improve SEO score by assigning the proper image metadata.
How does this plugin work or How to edit image metadata
Install the plugin “Media Library Helper by Codexin”
From Dashboard, go to media –> Library –> Open the “List View”
Unlock the edit mode. (You will see a button at the top, named “Edit mode is locked”)
Continue updating image ALT text, caption and description as you need.
Once finished, keep the edit mode Locked again.
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Image ALT tag, Caption & Description Visibility
Unlock Edit Mode
Single Edit Image ALT Tag, Caption & Description
Bulk Edit Image ALT Tag, Caption & Description
Perform a Search
Installation
Install using WordPress dashboard
Go to the WordPress dashboard.
Click on Plugins -> Add New
Type “Media Library Helper by Codexin” in the search box and hit enter.
Once you found our plugin, click on the “Install Now” button
Once installed, then click on the “Activate” button
Install using FTP
Download the plugin from the WordPress plugin repository
Unzip the archive on your computer
Upload the media-library-helper directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
FAQ
Will this plugin update existing images title, ALT tags, captions or descriptions in the media library?
This plugin will not automatically update existing images’ metadata in the media library. Once you install this plugin, then you have to update the image title, ALT Tag (ALT Text), Caption, and Description manually using this plugin.
I can’t see image ALT, Caption or Description columns inside Media Library
Make sure you have set the ALT tag, Caption and Description visible to the media library by going to the “Screen Options” at the top right corner of the page.
How to bulk edit image metadata
Go to the list view in your media library dashboard, then select the images you want to bulk edit. From the top dropdown menu, select “Edit” and then click on “Apply”. This will open the bulk edit editor. You can set image alt tag, caption and description as needed. The provided image alt tag, caption and description will be set for all the selected images.
How to search for blank or empty alt tag, caption and description?
Go to the list view in your media library dashboard. Keep the search box empty or blank. Select alt, caption or description from the search box dropdown list as you want and finally, click on filter.
I have updated/modified the image titles, ALT tags, captions or descriptions for some of the images, but those images still have the old titles, ALT tags, captions or descriptions where they are attached
This usually happens when the image titles, ALT tag, caption or descriptions have been hard-coded into your pages or posts. In other words, those image metadata are not being called dynamically from the media library database. If your pages/posts have hard-coded image metadata or use a page builder that provides a separate option to add image ALT tags, captions or descriptions, then updating image metadata from the WordPress media library won’t help. You need to go to that specific page or post and need to find out the existing hard-coded image alt tag, and replace them as you need.
Will this plugin update the images URLs or slugs as soon as I modify the image titles?
No, modifying the image titles using this plugin will not update the image URLs or slugs. Only the image titles will be updated, while the URLs or slugs will remain unchanged.
Reviews
Works a treat. Very useful for editing image metadata. With the importance of good alt text for Accessibility and SEO having this tool is helpful for accuracy and time savings.
Thank you!!
Does what it says!
easy to use and a huge time saver. such an obvious improvement to WordPress. Thank you
Some of my alt tags in my images are global copy/paste. This plugin saved me a ton of time vs having to enter each alt tag individually. Super easy to use. Works great. Can be disabled or deleted when not in use. Definitely recommend this over auto-generate alt tag solutions.
Just Perfect!!!
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Contributors & Developers
“Media Library Helper — Bulk edit image ALT, caption & description” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Codexin Technologies
cxnmedia
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1.3.2
Updated plugin name. Removed the word “WordPress”
Compatibility issues test with WordPress version 6.8
Updated readme.txt
1.3.1
Addressed the deprecated warning
Compatibility issues test with WordPress version 6.7
Updated readme.txt
1.3.0
Addressing the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability.
Code optimization and security enhancements.
Updated readme.txt
1.2.0
New feature: Title editing functionality has been added, allowing users to modify titles
Code optimization and security enhancements
Minor CSS adjustments
Updated readme.txt
1.1.0
New features integrated. Users can now search directly in the media library search box for blank or empty alt tags, captions and descriptions.
Compatibility checked with PHP version up to 8.1
Minor CSS changes
Updated readme.txt
1.0.4
Resolved compatibility issues with WordPress version 6.0
Minor CSS changes
Updated readme.txt
1.0.3
Removed unused public ajax callback function
Fixed a conflict when jQuery UI draggable feature is available on the WordPress media library page (list view).
Updated readme.txt
1.0.2
Resolved unknown column issue when GiveWP plugin is active
Updated readme.txt
1.0.1
Resolved media library nav menu visual glitch
Tweaked search reult by alt tag
1.0.0
First version!
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Version
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Tested up to
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