Posts tagged: image alt

Image alt text is one of the highest-impact SEO and accessibility improvements available on a content-heavy WordPress site — yet most images uploaded to the Media Library are left with an empty alt attribute because editors rarely fill it in manually. WordPress fires the add_attachment action immediately after an image is uploaded and saved, passing…

When a theme or page builder stores an image as a plain URL (e.g. in a theme options field or an ACF text field), you lose access to the attachment’s alt text and title stored in the Media Library. The functions below let you look up an attachment by its URL and retrieve those attributes…