Copying Alt Text to Other Image Sizes

Hello @westhillsweb

I hope you’re well today!

Smush doesn’t change ALT or any other data/information of that kind and it also doesn’t interact with them in any way. I mean: it’s neither adding nor removing any editing/configuration options (unless we’re dealing with some unidentified-yet conflict).

I’m not quite sure, though, if I correctly understand the case. By default you can set ALT attribute value in Media Library for an image but that’s not separate per each “image copy of different size” – for full-size image, thumbnail etc.

Whenever an image is displayed on site using standard WordPress core methods, it would either “out of the box” take the ALT value from what you set in Media Library (regardless of the image size used) or it’s up to theme developer to make it use it.

Still though, by default there’s no separate “alt” settings for each “size” of an image even without Smush being used.

That said, if I misunderstood your question please correct me and I’ll see what could be done to help with the issue.

Kind regards,
Adam

I think you understood my question perfectly. I neglected to use the term “thumbnail” in my original question, but you got it right. Based on what you said, I think we are dealing with a theme that does not show the original image’s ALT tag when it shows the thumbnail.
On the other hand, maybe the thumnails were originally made some other way, because the actual thumbnail shown is named differently…and I’m not quite sure if this is something that Smush does or not.
Here’s a screen shot of the thumbnail image from Inspect mode:
https://prnt.sc/ri5gxk
As you can see, the thumbnail name is: winetka-hotel-canoga-park-1120×593-350×185-cropped.jpg
And the original image is named: winetka-hotel-canoga-park-1120×593.jpg
Is this thumbnail the work or Smush or something else?
Thank you.
-Mark

Hello @westhillsweb

You got that right. The 350×185-cropped part in the file name states that this is a thumbnail version of the original image.
So it seems that this the theme indeed, or whatever is adding this image like a plugin or page builder.
As mentioned by Adam above, Smush doesn’t interact with this. What it does is send each image (each thumbnail, one by one) to Smush servers, where they get optimized and sent back to your server in the same exact path it was. All remaining data like ALT value is stored in the database.
I’d rather contact theme authors about it, maybe they have some quick workaround.

Warm regards,
Dimitris

Hi @westhillsweb

I hope you are doing well!

We haven’t heard back from you for a while now so we’ve marked this ticket as resolved. If you do have any followup questions or require further assistance feel free to reopen it and let us know here.

Kind regards,
Nastia