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AI Image Alt Text

Generate accurate, accessible image alt text with OpenAI. Boost SEO, improve accessibility, and save time with auto-generated alt tags.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.1.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.6 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update20 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations80Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.7 / 5 from 3 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records AI Image Alt Text version 1.1.1 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Supercharge your site’s SEO and accessibility with the ultimate AI alt text generator.

🌟 Pro | 📖 Documentation | ℹ️ Support

AI Alt Text uses OpenAI to automatically generate descriptive, context-aware alt text for your images. No more skipping alt attributes or guessing what to write. This plugin gives you fast, smart alt text that makes your site more inclusive and search-friendly.

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“We recently tested the AI Image Alt Text plugin for WordPress – and we’re impressed. What really stood out: the plugin doesn’t just insert generic labels. Instead, it reads the surrounding content and creates alt descriptions that are semantically relevant – even in multiple languages, including German.

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— LPZ

🔥 Features (Free Version)

  • ✅ Generate alt text using OpenAI’s GPT-5 or GPT-4o model
  • ✅ Customize the style of generated image descriptions (literal, creative, SEO-friendly, etc.)
  • ✅ Bulk generate alt text across your entire media library
  • ✅ Works with new uploads and existing images
  • ✅ Dashboard summary and manual regenerate buttons
  • ✅ WordPress Media Library integration
  • ✅ Built-in logging and debug mode
  • ✅ Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, and WebP images

🌟 Pro Features

  • ⚡ SEO integration and scoring: The pro version comes with automatic integration with major SEO plugins and image optimization tools. When enabled, your posts will receive an image alt text SEO score, allowing you to swap or reorder images, and review/regenerate alt text to better boost SEO for all pages and posts on your site.
  • 🛒 WooCommerce integration: Use product and image data to automatically set alt text for WooCommerce product images.
  • 🧠 Context-aware alt text: Automatically generate alt text that is based on the existing content of the page or post the image is on.
  • 🔄 Scheduled regeneration: Create a schedule to have your alt text automatically regenerated at specific intervals using AI.
  • 📊 Analytics: Keep track of how many images were updated, skipped or failed generation with automatic analytics.
  • 🎨 Style/tone presets: Choose from several style presets for the alt text generator to match the tone and target audience for your website.
  • 📝 Customizable prompts: Combine the ability to write a custom prompt with included options, like language, number of characters, etc.

Learn more about the pro version here

💡 Why Use This Plugin?

Search engines and screen readers depend on alt text, but writing good descriptions is time consuming and often neglected. Let AI handle it for you, with powerful image analysis and custom options.

Whether you’re a blogger, photographer, eCommerce store owner, or accessibility consultant, this plugin makes your site faster, smarter, and more inclusive.

Boost your accessibility and alt text SEO by letting this powerful, easy-to-use generator do the work for you.

External Services

The plugin uses the OpenAI API to generate the alt text, using the API key that you provide.

The default or user-inputted prompt, along with the image and any selected context information, is sent each time alt text is generated.

Links to the OpenAI terms of service and privacy policy can be found at:

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • alt text
  • alt text generator
  • image alt text
  • accessibility
  • seo
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.6 · PHP 7.4
Update activity20 Aug 20262mo ago

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