WordPress
How to Add Alt Text to Images in WordPress (Step-by-Step)
The block editor, the classic editor, and the Media Library — where the field lives, what to write, and the mistakes that make descriptions useless.
Practical guides to writing image descriptions that help people and search engines — from a single block to a store full of products.
WordPress
The block editor, the classic editor, and the Media Library — where the field lives, what to write, and the mistakes that make descriptions useless.
Buyer’s guide
AI generators, filename-based tools, SEO suites, and manual workflows — what each one actually does, what it costs, and how to choose without breaking existing alt text.
AI & automation
How vision models read an image, where they get it wrong, and the review-first workflow that keeps generated descriptions honest.
WooCommerce
Featured images, gallery shots, and variations: how to describe products so shoppers and search engines both understand what they are seeing.
Accessibility
What WCAG 2.2 SC 1.1.1 actually asks for, when an empty alt attribute is correct, and how to run a sensible image audit.
Bulk workflows
Why overwriting every image backfires, and the safer sequence: scan only what is missing, review suggestions, save in batches.
Examples
Portraits, product shots, charts, screenshots, logos, and decoration — weak wording beside better wording, and the reason each one works.
Audits
Lighthouse, a site crawler, an SQL query, or an audit plugin — which one finds unused media files, and what to fix first.
Audits
Filename placeholders, redundant openers, keyword stuffing: how to sample the descriptions already on your site, score them, and fix the weak ones without overwriting the good ones.
Image SEO
Alt text, file names, captions, formats, lazy loading, sitemaps, and product photos — ordered by impact, with a check for each one.
SEO
What alt text actually does for image search and page context, how to write it without keyword stuffing, and how to measure the effect.
Comparison
Subscription credits versus a bring-your-own-key plugin: the two cost models, when a managed service wins, and how to switch without losing alt text.
Free tools
A chat prompt, a bring-your-own-key WordPress plugin, and a browser checker — what each one costs in effort, and when a subscription makes sense.