Feature request: alt image with image about magic-fields-2

[cmwelsh]

This would be nice to have. Besides the obvious reason to add this, I can see organizations requiring alt text on all relevant images due to government accessibility regulations.

[gleenk]

It will be also "SEO useful" too. Let's have a try

[Dermotholmes]

+1

[gleenk]

When we will know if it this request is implemented? :D

[leocaseiro]

I'm using the get_image function() with the $tag_img param on zero(false) with a label field on alt and title attributes.

<img title="<?php echo get('my_label'); ?>" alt="<?php echo get('my_label'); ?>" src="<?php echo get_image('my_imagem',1,1,0); ?>" />

[gleenk]

Sure this is the "standard" way but It would be really better having a "combo" field like drupal. It would be easier.

[JeffreyPia]

There are alt and caption fields in WP's Media Library. Ideally, there should be a way to pull these fields directly from the get_image function, but barring that, there should at the very least be a way to return the image's ID so we can manually retrieve these fields.

[panarican]

Add this to functions.php

function get_alt( $attachment_url = '' ) {
 
    global $wpdb;
    $attachment_id = false;
 
    // If there is no url, return.
    if ( '' == $attachment_url )
        return;
 
    // Get the upload directory paths
    $upload_dir_paths = wp_upload_dir();
 
    // Make sure the upload path base directory exists in the attachment URL, to verify that we're working with a media library image
    if ( false !== strpos( $attachment_url, $upload_dir_paths['baseurl'] ) ) {
 
        // If this is the URL of an auto-generated thumbnail, get the URL of the original image
        $attachment_url = preg_replace( '/-\d+x\d+(?=\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$)/i', '', $attachment_url );
 
        // Remove the upload path base directory from the attachment URL
        $attachment_url = str_replace( $upload_dir_paths['baseurl'] . '/', '', $attachment_url );
 
        // Finally, run a custom database query to get the attachment ID from the modified attachment URL
        $attachment_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT wposts.ID FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id AND wpostmeta.meta_key = '_wp_attached_file' AND wpostmeta.meta_value = '%s' AND wposts.post_type = 'attachment'", $attachment_url ) );
 
    }
    
    // get the alt text 
    $alt = get_post_meta($attachment_id, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true);
    // return alt
    return $alt;
}

Usage

$img = get('the_img');
echo get_alt($img);

[hunk]

I'm cleaning the issues if you still have this problem reopen the issue. thanks