Alt Text & Image SEO — ALTification

1.0.7

• Fixed: images whose SEO gap had already been addressed could all reappear as gaps after updating, with regenerating each one the only way to clear them. The Site Scan was treating “this scan did not find the image on a page” as proof the image is not on one, and discarding the page it had already been confirmed against. Images placed by page builders, theme templates, sliders or image optimisers are routinely invisible to the scan, so on a large site this affected hundreds of images at once
• Updating restores the confirmed page on every affected image automatically. Nothing needs regenerating and no credits are used
• The Site Scan now only re-attributes an image when it actually finds it on a different page, and re-points it at that page instead of discarding what it knew
• Alt text written from the upload page’s keyword is still flagged, but now only when the keyword really is present in the alt text and the same page produced a batch of files with the same guess — the case a batch upload creates. A single file uploaded into the page it is used on is no longer flagged
• Added: “Mark visible as reviewed” on the Site Scan, to dismiss the SEO gap flag on every listed image at once. Alt text is not changed and no credits are used
• Clearer wording on the SEO gap notice, naming the page the keyword came from and how many other images were given the same one
• Fixed: the Site Scan could open on the “Missing any” filter showing an empty list, on sites whose only outstanding image is one marked decorative. Decorative images and SVGs are no longer counted as missing anything
• Fixed: images were listed as Improvable whose alt text already contained the page keyword. Improvable was decided purely on whether the alt text had been written before the image was confirmed on a page, so it offered regenerations that would spend a credit reproducing what was already there. It now also checks whether the keyword is genuinely missing from the alt text
• Fixed: the Media Library and the Site Scan reported different Improvable counts for the same images. The Media Library ran its own query that could not tell whether a page keyword was available; both screens now read the same scan result
• Removed the one-time notice about post type scanning changes

1.0.6

• Fixed: the Page Scanner and the editor sidebar could report an SEO gap on alt text that already contained the page’s focus keyphrase. These two screens were missed by the 1.0.5 fix, so they still judged alt text against the site-wide default keyword. The Site Scan and Media Library were already correct, which is why the same image could show a gap on one screen and not another
• Fixed: images could stay in the Improvable filter permanently, reappearing after every regenerate and save. Images shared across several pages were the ones affected — they generate descriptively with no page keyword, so there was never a better keyword for them to move to and they should not have been listed at all
• Improvable now means a page-specific keyword is genuinely available for that image, rather than simply that the image appears somewhere on the site

1.0.5

• Fixed: images could be flagged as an SEO gap even when their alt text already contained the page’s focus keyphrase. The check was not looking at the page the image was found on, so it compared the alt text against your site-wide default keyword instead
• Fixed: the Media Library showed the site-wide default keyword rather than the keyword of the page an image appears on, and used it when generating from that screen
• Most visible on sites using custom post types, which 1.0.4 brought into the scan for the first time. If your SEO gap count jumped after 1.0.4, this corrects it — no need to regenerate anything

1.0.4

• Fixed: images could be generated using the keyword of the page they were uploaded from rather than the page they appear on. WordPress records which post’s editor was open at upload time, so a batch upload left every file pointing at one arbitrary page
• Fixed: alt text generated on upload was marked as reviewed immediately, so an incorrect keyword was never re-checked by a later scan. It is now provisional until a scan confirms which page the image is on
• Fixed: accurate alt text could be flagged as an SEO gap, and “Fix SEO gap” would then overwrite it using an unrelated page’s keyword
• Fixed: custom post types registered after your settings were last saved were silently left out of scans. All public post types are now scanned unless you exclude them in Settings
• Fixed: WooCommerce product context could be applied to an image that belongs to a different product
• New: the Site Scan and Media Library now show when an image was uploaded from a page it does not appear on, rather than presenting that page as its source
• Affected images are re-flagged for review on your next Site Scan. Images you marked as reviewed yourself are left untouched

1.0.3

• Account dashboard now shows the site language badge for American English (US) sites, not just non-default locales
• Each generation sends an explicit language display label to the account platform
• No change to language detection or generated output

1.0.2

• Fixed a bug where the editor metabox could interfere with ACF’s own field resolution on the post edit screen, occasionally causing ACF field values to display incorrectly until a hard refresh
• Editor metabox content now loads asynchronously for better compatibility with sites using Advanced Custom Fields
• Reduced the metabox’s performance impact on sites with a large number of pages