Image alt tags

vigyanixadmin · October 2014

Is there any way to make Image shortcodes to read the ALT attribute from what is defined in the media library instead of forcing to specify in each shortcode separately?

Any help is appreciated.

thanks

Albert · October 2014

Hi,

unfortunately it is not possible. Alt tags for media must be setup from shortcode position.

Thanks for understanding!

vangme · May 2017

does it mean i need to manually add the alt image on the coding only?

Bryan · May 2017

Yes, the shortcode has a field for that
[image src="" width="" height="" align="" border="0" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" link="" link_image="" target="" alt="" caption="" greyscale="0" animate=""]

hofergrafik · July 2017

hello, will it be possible in the future?

Bryan · July 2017

What exactly? It is possible. The alt="" attribute is avaliable.

karlkroeber · October 2017

I'm pretty sure you understand the question he is asking. And since BeTheme actually has code implemented to accomplish this, I believe you agree that this is something that should be working, it's just that your code is deprecated.

Here's how to solve this problem:

You need a child theme (actually I'm not sure if you need one, but it's best practice anyways) in order to overwrite the muffin functions. Then you can simply replace the old function "mfn_get_attachment_id_url" with a working one within your functions.php

I have used this one: https://wpscholar.com/blog/get-attachment-id-from-wp-image-url/

Since there is a restriction on how many characters I can post here, I can't post the entire solution, but I believe its straightforward enough.

Edit:

To account for relative image paths add this to the function:

if (substr($url, 0, 1) === '/') {
    $url = get_site_url() . $url;
}

olexmacc · October 2017

Setting alt for images in visual Muffin-Builder works fine (there is a line to fill). It also works with shotcode.

How do I set alt for the main Logo?

Bryan · October 2017

olexmacc
Just go to your media library and add an alt text to this image.

Image alt tags

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