lasertits

I’ve been using that for other purposes but it appears it doesn’t do what I need in terms of renaming the media titles. Plenty of options on how to map the image data into wordpress but nothing that allows me to bulk edit the image titles or have them match their parent.

Thank you again for suggesting a possible solution!

Edit: Another idea that might work is a plugin that would allow me to replace the ALT tags with the post title and image caption if there is one.

Something like “Replace all ALT tags with: %caption %title”

%caption = caption of attachment
%title = post title

This would solve the SEO issues I was having with random file names being the alt tags, as well as any lightbox or similar viewers showing random file names as the titles. So I’d have my caption as “This is a caption – “. The end result would be something like “This is a caption – Assorted Photos 2013”, and if no caption existed: “Assorted Photos 2013”.

I found “SEO Friendly Images” plugin and it does exactly this, the only problem is it only supports %title, %name (file name of media), %category, %tags. The %name is always “e” due to the gallery using a blank e.gif 1×1 pixel image for each gallery image and then a data value for the actual image, e.g.:
src=”e.gif” data-original=”wp-content/uploads/2013/09/IMG_20130127_123103-314×209.jpg”

So the end result when trying to use %name %title is “e Assorted Photos 2013” or whatever. Right now I’m just using it with %title as simply having that is an improvment over what I had before, but it does eliminate the ability to define a caption for individual images which is something I need, so I guess this plugin won’t do.

Something just like it, perhaps with more options though might be perfect.

I’ve got some research to do!