Image alt text

[onelife69]

Hi all,

How can I set the image alt text to default to the thread title, opposed to the current filename?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Which image?

 

[onelife69]

Which image?

Sorry, I should have mentioned the images that are uploaded as an attachment to a post.

 

[agison]

Hi all,

How can I set the image alt text to default to the thread title, opposed to the current filename?

So if you have 100 images in a post. All 100 images will have same alt. That's not good.

 

[onelife69]

So if you have 100 images in a post. All 100 images will have same alt. That's not good.

I agree, but we don't have that many attachments in any one post, maybe 5 - 10. At the moment the alt text is reading filename values which mean nothing. For example

<img src="attachments/img_0633-jpg.3924/" alt="IMG_0633.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" />
<br />
<img src="attachments/img_0634-jpg.3925/" alt="IMG_0634.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" />

I doubt I can convert my users to change the filename before uploading.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I doubt I can convert my users to change the filename before uploading.

You got that right !

Xenforo's SEO for images seems pretty rudimentary.

Ideally it would be nice if an admin could add alt text manually to images.

 

[Jake Bunce]

For [attach] tags in posts the thread record is not available. But for the list of attachments at the bottom of a post you can edit the attached_files template and use {$thread.title}.

 

[onelife69]

For [attach] tags in posts the thread record is not available. But for the list of attachments at the bottom of a post you can edit the attached_files template and use {$thread.title}.

Thanks Jake you're the man, that has been implemented and works well. Now to convince my users to attach their images but not insert them