Only a fraction of images are scanned/captured

Hi @vmajor,

Thanks for giving Alt Text Tools a try!

The plugin should include all images that are actually used in your content — there’s no artificial limit, or anything like that. So if an image is in the media library, but isn’t actually used anywhere in the content, it won’t show up in the CSV.

I see you’re using WooCommerce… I’m actually not sure if it will show the alt text for product images, since those aren’t set manually when adding the images. I’m also not sure if Woo will use the Alt Text that’s configured in the media library, or if it will auto-generate based on product details. I’d suggest you test on a specific product/image – check the alt text on the image on the product page, and then add the alt text to the image in the media library and see if Woo updates it on the product page?

If you do need to go through and add alt text for images in the media library, you can do that manually – or The Blog Fixer also has a helpful product for this… it’s a bit more robust than our CSV export tool. https://www.blogfixer.com/image-alt-text-generator-fix/

Hope that helps!

– Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for the quick and detailed reply. WooCommerce does allow setting of alt text, and the images are all indexable regardless of which module calls them. Thus perhaps it would be good if your plugin could somehow parse wp-uploads/content for all images.

Regarding your suggestion about WooCommerce image alt text handling, I am not sure what you mean. WooCommerce does not have image handling ability as far as I can tell, but uses the system to handle all media. Thus as far as I could see all of our images have some form of manually entered alt text.

The USD 199 for that alternative plugin is rather steep, possibly aimed at some huge media library environments.