Media captions vs descriptions

  • Does anyone know where wordpress image descriptions are actually used? I don’t like to use image captions, which wordpress says are also used as alternate text for the images. Are image descriptions also used as alternate text for images – or for something else?

    The reason I would like to know is that I would like to add alternate text to my earlier images to keep google happy without using captions.

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  • Are image descriptions also used as alternate text for images – or for something else?

    They’re used to provide additional content when images are displayed on their own in an attachment page (when the thumbnail is linked to a Post Url).

    I would like to add alternate text to my earlier images to keep google happy without using captions

    Then ensure that all images have a human readable title before you insert them into a post or page.

    Thread Starter saphire2

    (@saphire2)

    Thanks, Esmi. All my images already have as much info as I can squeeze into the title as possible.

    But it appears from what you said, there is no way to include extra alternate text for the image unless I write it in captions. And since I don’t use captions, it looks like I’m not going to be able to satisfy google with image details.

    I’m surprised more people haven’t come up against this difficulty.

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