Title: Programmatically switch "Title" and "Alt" text values in WordPress images
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Programmatically switch "Title" and "Alt" text values in WordPress images

 *  [nessup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessup/)
 * (@nessup)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-switch-title-and-alt-text-values-in-wordpress/)
 * Hi there,
 * I have hundreds of images in my WP for which I would like to switch the values
   of alt and title. I’m aware that the best way to do this would be via an SQL 
   query, but coding one is far beyond my comprehension currently. Is there anyone
   out there who can code it? Or is there another way to do this?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [nessup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessup/)
 * (@nessup)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-switch-title-and-alt-text-values-in-wordpress/#post-2104219)
 * Another hacky way of doing this that I just thought of is forcing wordpress to
   output a value for the alt tag that originally was meant for the title tag, but
   of course this method would not survive subsequent updates of the software.
 * Any ideas still?
 *  Thread Starter [nessup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessup/)
 * (@nessup)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-switch-title-and-alt-text-values-in-wordpress/#post-2104250)
 * Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [nessup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessup/)
 * (@nessup)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-switch-title-and-alt-text-values-in-wordpress/#post-2104512)
 * Ping?

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## Tags

 * [alt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alt/)
 * [alternate text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alternate-text/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)
 * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/)
 * [Pictures](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pictures/)
 * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/)
 * [title](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/title/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-switch-title-and-alt-text-values-in-wordpress/#post-2104512)
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