Alt text Not Showing on Live Site

Hi @s1ne,

We apologize for the delay in response and thank you so much for taking the time to look at our plugin. Let us check on this issue and We’ll get back with an update ASAP.

Thank you

Hi @s1ne

We appreciate your patience as we investigate this issue. So far, you are using the Gutenberg Image Block to render images on posts.

Unfortunately, if you edit or update the ALT text for an image in your Media Library after attaching it to a post using Gutenberg Image Block, it won’t update or refresh the ALT text for that image on its corresponding posts.

This is an old issue with the Gutenberg image Block, several discussions have been made on this earlier and so far this behavior has been introduced on purpose by the Gutenberg Image block development team. One of the reasons could be, people want to use a different ALT text for specific images based on their context rather than having the default one that’s been assigned in Media Library. Here is a sample discussion that might interest you.

When you attach or upload an image using the Gutenberg Image Block, that image block starts working locally for that specific page or post and no longer considers the Media Library image ALT text. So, if you want to use the ALT texts that have been assigned on Media Library, you will have to re-upload that image in the Gutenberg Image block.

We hope you found the above information helpful and we appreciate your interest in our plugin.

Have a nice day.

I don’t think it relates to the Gutteburg block only. Ive expanded the test to include all methods I’m aware of to insert an image and it can’t be updated using either your plugin or with the standard WordPress alt field.

In regards to this behaviour being desirable to maintain alt tags modified in the post. I think the best logic would be to update only the empty alt tags.

Hi @s1ne,

We can understand the issue but what our plugin offers at this moment is to provide an easy and fast solution for the users to update or add image ALT text, caption, and description using the media library.

If an image on a specific page or post is using a hardcoded ALT text, that ALT text is not going to update or refresh no matter if you update it using the media library. In your specific case, as you have used Gutenberg Image Block, it doesn’t call the ALT text dynamically from the media library rather it uses an assigned ALT tag that was initially set on this particular Image Block Widget at the time when you insert it into the post or page. So, unfortunately, you’ll have to go on each of those pages/posts and will have to update those hard-coded ALT texts manually.

Thank you.

Fair enough but I think if you decided in future to add an option to search and populate all hard coded empty alt tags that would be a great addition to your plug-in. It’s surprising to me I wasn’t yet able to find any third party solution for this. I really think WordPress should just do it.

Additionally (and unrelated) being able to also modify the image name would make your plugin unbeatable…but you’d have to reconsider the name ??

Thank you for the support and awesome plug-in.

That’s an excellent suggestion! We’ll definitely try to add such a feature in a future release. Thank you again for your interest and all this feedback.

Have a nice day.