🤖 AI-Powered Image SEO for WordPress
⚡ Automatically generate ALT text, captions, titles, and descriptions for every image on your site — powered by AI, in seconds.
🆕 New! SEO-friendly filenames, generated by AI
- AI SEO-Friendly Filenames – Let AI rename your images with descriptive, SEO-friendly filenames, with controls for the length, extra context and text to always add before or after the name. Renaming applies only to newly uploaded images or to images not yet used in any published content, so no existing links can break. Reverting the AI data also restores the previous filename.
- Links Updated Everywhere – When an image is renamed, every thumbnail is renamed with it and the links inside your posts, pages and page-builder content are updated.
- Full WPML & Polylang Compatibility – Every language version of an image gets its own AI Image SEO data, in the right language, and a shared file is renamed only once for all languages.
- Full Offload Media Compatibility – AI renaming works with WP Offload Media, even for images stored only in the cloud, and keeps the access permissions of your files.
- Before / After Text – Add fixed text before or after the generated ALT tag, caption, description, title and filename for full consistency across your site.
Poor or missing image SEO data hurts your SEO rankings, degrades accessibility, and costs you visitors. The
ShortPixel AI Alt Text Generator solves all of this in one lightweight, install-and-forget WordPress plugin.
Whether you're running a blog, an online store, or a large media-heavy website, this plugin analyses your images with AI and generates accurate, SEO-optimised image data, automatically on upload, or in bulk for your entire library.
2.0.0
🏷️ The SEO Filenames & Multilingual Update
Release Date: October 9, 2026
✨ New Features
- AI SEO-Friendly Filenames: The plugin can now rename your images using descriptive, SEO-friendly filenames generated by AI, with controls for the character limit, additional context, text to always add before or after the name, and keeping the current filename when it already describes the image. To keep your site safe, renaming applies only to newly uploaded images or to images that are not yet used in any published content, so no existing links can break.
- Adjust a Generated Filename: When AI filenames are enabled, the Edit Media screen also lets you adjust the name of an image by hand, with the same safety rules and a link to the knowledge base explaining what renaming can and cannot do.
- Full WPML & Polylang Compatibility: Every language version of an image now gets its own AI-generated SEO data, text is never written into pages of another language, and a shared file is renamed only once for all languages.
- Full Offload Media Compatibility: File renaming (AI and manual) works with WP Offload Media, including images that are offloaded to the cloud only, and keeps the access permissions (ACL) of your files.
- "Always Add Before / After" Controls: Add fixed text before or after the generated ALT tag, caption, description, title and filename.
- Conflict Notice: When ShortPixel Image Optimizer is active, which already includes the same AI features, this plugin now explains why it switched itself off instead of disappearing silently.
⚙️ Improvements
- AI Content Replacement Control: A new setting lets you choose whether AI-generated SEO data should be added to images in your posts and pages only when it's missing, overwrite the existing data, or leave your content untouched.
- Settings Screen: The ALT character limit, additional context and the new before/after fields are shown in both view modes and follow the "Generate image ALT tag" switch; the filename options have their own full-width card.
- Undo of Renames: "Revert AI SEO data" also restores the previous filename, the metadata and the links inside your site after an AI rename. External links are not restored, because no redirect is created in either direction.
- Edit Media Refresh: The Edit Media screen reloads after an AI rename, so the File URL field is always up to date.
- Content Updates via WordPress: Posts, pages and page-builder data changed by the content replacer are saved through WordPress's own post update, so revisions, caches and save hooks behave as expected.
- Attachment Cleanup: Deleting an attachment also removes its AI record and queue entries.
- Multisite Settings: On multisite installations the network settings are stored and read as network options.
- Updated Interface & Texts: Clearer plan and credit wording, updated pricing links, and an "Unlimited AI" banner that lists the benefits that apply to this plugin.
- Comprehensive Automated Testing: The plugin now runs a comprehensive suite of automated tests (unit, integration, compatibility, multisite and end-to-end browser tests) on every change, on all the supported PHP versions, complemented by the relevant manual tests done by our engineering and testing teams.
🔒 Security
- HTTPS Only: The API key is no longer sent over plain HTTP after a single failed HTTPS call; the connection to the ShortPixel API stays on HTTPS.
- XSS Fix: Hardened the output escaping in the Bulk Processing log view, preventing a potential cross-site scripting issue.
- Hardened Content Replacement: The content replacer blocks PHP object instantiation when processing serialized data, preventing potential object injection through crafted content.
- Debug Parameter: Adding the debug parameter to a URL no longer causes a fatal error for visitors or administrators.
🛠️ Fixes
- Redo AI SEO Data: "Redo AI replacement", for single images and in bulk, did nothing because the stored AI status was compared as text.
- Over-Quota Replies: An over-quota reply from the API is now reported instead of being retried indefinitely.
- Chained AI Actions: Follow-up AI actions are no longer skipped as "already queued".
- Queue Reliability: Prevented a potential primary-key corruption on queue updates (unknown columns are now skipped) and fixed a retry bug in queue processing.
- Fresh Uploads: An AI rename of a freshly uploaded image is no longer refused because the image is already placed in a post.
- WPML Language Domains: Fixed file detection on WPML sites that use separate domains or directories per language.
- Safari Processing: Leaving a page mid-processing in Safari no longer shows a false "Load failed" error.
- Breakdance: Documents are updated with the save function signature of the installed Breakdance version.
- API Key Recovery: A corrupted API key entry in the database is rebuilt instead of causing an error.
- AI Preview: Excluded images are shown as such in the AI preview.
- Settings Types: Numbers and booleans in settings arrays keep their type.
- Free Sign-Up: The free sign-up request sends the same domain information as ShortPixel Image Optimizer.
- PHP 8 Compatibility: Fixed several PHP 8 deprecations and type warnings.
Update now to give your images SEO-friendly names, get AI SEO data in every language and enjoy a more secure and reliable plugin! 🚀
1.0.0