How to Add Alt Attributes to WordPress
WordPress makes it easy to add alt attributes. You can simply incorporate these alt attributes into images by following the steps below. This is a must-do task. These are the details that will make your image SEO shine. The visually impaired users will even love your content more for this.
When you load pictures in Site Content it will show the Alt Box and Description box. This is where you can add your keywords for your articles to your pictures, tying it all together for Google. Make sure it's relevant to your article.
- Log into your WordPress site. Logging in will directly take you to your WordPress back office.
- To edit the content, open the page or post.
- To open the Image settings, click on the image block in the Sidebar. The Image settings will appear in the Block tab on the sidebar.
- Add the title attribute and the alt text
- Click the Update button, which is located in the upper-right corner.
Or you can click on the picture in your post and click on edit. This will bring up the Alt and description boxes and you can fill them in there. Click save and you are done!
Wrapping it up
If your site's loading speed is slow, it will have a negative impact on your business. Your Google ranking will be negatively affected, as well as your ability to get clicks. Make sure you are aware of the image dimensions (1200 x 360 pixels is recommended by WordPress) and that large images can be resized to the appropriate size.
I recommend JPEGmini, a desktop application that compresses images and combines them with WordPress plugins. You can also use Google PageSpeed Insights to check the loading speed of your site.
This is a key element of creating posts with pictures to attract and hold your readers so it is worth the time to create a system to optimize your images. Here are a few tutorials to help you on your learning journey.
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I’m so glad you visited today and I hope you are ready to start optimizing your images.
Please leave a comment and like as it’s great to hear your thoughts.
Warm Regards,
Lily
I also prefer to save my images to certain sizes. I read the other day the best image size for featured images is 1600 x 900 to make it better shareable on social media platforms. What is your take on this?
I know my content size is 1200 wide without sidebars and 620 with a sidebar (considering padding). I, therefore, resize my images inside posts to 650 wide using an online tool called BeFunky. I like it because it's ad-free. I only use the crop and resize feature. You can also select the quality % to decrease the file size. Am I following the correct approach here?
Thanks again for great training.
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Thanks for this comment. The size of images you use on your website is very personal as it will affect your loading speed and this can depend on the theme that you use.
You need to juggle the size with the effect you want and the speed of loading. There are more expensive plugins and software that can help with this if you are wanting to have a website full of pictures. But what you are doing sounds perfect for your website.
Keep up the great work and keep checking that site speed, once a week. It will flag individual blogs which need work on the images.
Warm Regards,
Lily
Excellent post, thank you.
I've just changed all my images to WebP (WebP doesn't work for GIFs).
Having previously optimised JPG and PNG with Kraken, the new images vary between 50% and 75% of the original size. The exercise has added an additional 10 points or so to my mobile load speed (from about 70 to 80 something for each post.
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Richard
It really is important to work on your images.
Lily
I use cheap software ...
PhotoPad Image Editor for creating good quality images of the dimensions I want in JPG or PNG or other... it allows me to increase the dimensions on images that are too small without getting grainy.
Pixillion Image Convertor to change the format to WebP (or to any other format).
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Richard
Roy
what do you think about this methodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4PDrmel2CA
thanks
chin
I'm so pleased that you are resizing, it's so important.
Lily 😁🎶
