Title: Image & Bulk Edit Difficulty
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Image & Bulk Edit Difficulty

 *  Resolved [casart2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casart2/)
 * (@casart2)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-bulk-edit-difficulty/)
 * Hello — I’m having some difficulty with image editing:
 * #1 The plugin image edit page tells me that many images need a title or alt text
   and to “fix meta” when I’ve already added the titles, alt and descriptions to
   all the images in the Media Library but the plugin doesn’t seem to be recognizing
   the edits I made. This is after clearing history cache and reloading the plugin
   image edit page. Why is the plugin not recognizing the edits that were made in
   the Media Library?
 * #2 Furthermore, when I click on the fix meta button for an individual image, 
   I can confirm the edits I made to the images while editing in the Media Library
   are indeed there but appear to be outside of the input window and need to be “
   copied.” Could this just be busywork to “load” the info into the plugin when 
   the meta info already exits? Is the meta info not being saved correctly when 
   editing through the Media Library?
 * #3 Is there a way to bulk edit the image title (not the name) as the alt
    text?
   Often times the image name was not optimized for SEO before uploading but the
   edits to the titles have since been optimized.
 * #4 When I’ve tested the bulk copy for selected images I get a prompt telling 
   me, “We didn’t find any bulk edits to batch copy, congrats!” Does this mean the
   titles I added in the Media Library are in fact fine? If so, then why is the 
   plugin detecting titles and alts need to be added?
 * #5 Can the accuracy of the SEO percentage that the plugin describes be truly 
   trusted in the dashboard?
 * I like the plugin, I’m just trying to get as accurate a reading for SEO with 
   it as possible and want to be sure the info it is telling me is correct.
 * Many thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-seo/)

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 *  Plugin Author [JoomUnited](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joomunited/)
 * (@joomunited)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-bulk-edit-difficulty/#post-6926099)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for your feedback.
 * 1. OK let’s be clear on how WordPress is handling that images titles to begin
   🙂
    When you edit image titles in the WordPress media library view, WordPress
   stores this data attached to the image. Then when you add an image in a post 
   for example, the title you added will be added as alt text NOT image title. That’s
   why titles are missing. This is something made to, I guess, avoid SEO problem
   when an image is used in various context in your content.
 * WP Meta SEO is then detecting those image titles as missing (because there’s 
   on only alternate text) and you can then bulk fix that. Use the dropdown list
   to select all content then click on the button **Image name as image title** 
   I guess you have rename all your images on upload 🙂
 * 2. It’s too dangerous for SEO to make that automatic and you can use the bulk
   tool for that.
 * 3. To cover all possibilities we may add a bulk edit for:
    - Title to alt text
    - Alt text to Title
 * 4. Make sure you select the right images you want to bulk edit
 * 5. It’s more SEO statistics than a SEO score 🙂
 * Cheers!

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## Tags

 * [alt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alt/)
 * [bulk edit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bulk-edit/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)
 * [title](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/title/)

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 * Last reply from: [JoomUnited](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joomunited/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-bulk-edit-difficulty/#post-6926099)
 * Status: resolved