Auto Alt Text From File Name – Made by Saad

Auto Alt Text from Filename is a lightweight, no-bloat plugin that automatically generates alt text for images and captions for other media files based on their filenames. Improve SEO, accessibility, and content consistency without manual editing.

Perfect for photographers, bloggers, marketers, and content-heavy sites.

Key Features:

• Automatically generates alt text for images
• Optionally generates captions for videos, audio, and documents
• Bulk update existing media in one click
• Clean formatting: removes file extensions, replaces dashes/underscores with spaces
• Optional title-casing (capitalization)
• Supports dozens of formats (JPG, PNG, MP4, MP3, PDF, and more)
• Settings panel with full customization

Example Conversions:

• red-sports-car.jpg → “Red Sports Car”
• office_meeting.mp4 → “Office Meeting”

Additional Features

For developers and advanced users:
– Exclude specific patterns via filter hooks
– Add custom alt text prefixes or suffixes
– WP-CLI support (coming soon)

1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/auto-alt-from-filename
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress
3. Go to Settings > Alt Text Generator to customize behavior and run the bulk processor

1. 

   Settings panel with alt and caption templates

2. 

   Bulk update tool for existing media files

3. 

   Auto-generated alt text shown in the Media Library