Improve image delivery with optional AI-assisted alt text and attachment titles.
- Generate WebP/AVIF locally when supported by your server, with original-file backups.
- Deliver modern formats through picture markup or server rewriting, using a derivative manifest.
- Configure quality, delivery and queued upload automation with guided setup.
- Generate optional SmartAlt suggestions in your site language, including background library processing.
- Review or explicitly authorise auto-application, with before/after history and undo.
This is an independent plugin developed by Web Wonderland. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by WordPress, Elementor or WPBakery.
Local and cloud processing
Local optimisation uses your server's CPU, disk and image libraries, without an API key or monthly conversion allowance.
Remote conversion and SmartAlt require a Cloud API key. Lite, Pro and Unlimited allowances differ; see Cloud Services for account limits and
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Choose Local or Remote API in settings. Generated files remain on your server if a cloud allowance is exhausted or a key expires; local optimisation remains available.
Background SmartAlt
Open SEO Image Optimiser > Smart Alt & Titles (Cloud), then use Background SmartAlt:
- Choose missing alt text only (recommended), or all supported images.
- Choose review-only or auto-apply, optional title updates, a minimum AI score and an image limit (0 = all eligible images present at start).
- For automatic application, accept the AI accuracy acknowledgement and confirm the run. Replacing existing alt text requires a separate acknowledgement.
- Return to check progress, pause, resume or cancel. Cancellation retains completed changes.
JPEG, PNG, WebP and AVIF images are supported, including publicly accessible offloaded/CDN copies. Runs use your SmartAlt allowance and pause at its limit. Later uploads are handled separately.
AI descriptions can be inaccurate. Scores are self-reported, not accuracy guarantees. In background runs, below-threshold, missing-score and decorative results stay in review. A threshold of 0 permits auto-application of every scored non-decorative caption. Check important names, product details and text.
Work continues after the browser closes using WordPress cron and remote heartbeat support; timing depends on hosting and scheduler availability.
Before/after history and undo
Administrators can compare saved alt text and titles across background, upload-automation and manual SmartAlt changes.
Use Undo change for one entry, or select a run and choose Undo this run for background restoration. Finish or cancel captioning before starting undo.
Undo restores only changed fields that still match the recorded after values, protecting newer edits. Suggestions remain available; undo does not refund generation allowance.
History starts with 1.1.3; earlier changes are not reconstructed. Original image-file restoration is separate from metadata undo.