Retrieve alt text by referencing the img src

reno_queen

I have a website with 400+ images. Using a spreadsheet plugin I've been through and manually added alt text to each of the images. The problem I have is that the pages are built with a page builder and a lot of the images where added in text blocks using <img src="https://example.com/image-folder/image-name.jpg"> and therefore haven't dynamically pulled in the alt text. I'm trying to avoid having to go through all of the pages, find the img...

Originally asked by Steviehype on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Did you get anywhere with this? I've just written a plugin that does exactly this job. It's basically a cron job that scans all your posts & pages to create an internal index of which images are where. It then synchronises your Media Library alt text with the images in your content. It's based on the code from this tutorial: https://wp-tutorials.tech/refine-wordpress/filter-for-images-missing-alt-text/ but the plugin builds on it to add the synchronisation stuff. There's al link to the plugin from the tutorial page. But... it all comes down to page-builder integration. The plugin currently only has Gutenberg and Classic-Edit integration at the moment. I need to add Elementor/Divi/etc...

Full answer by Paul: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/408155 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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