EveryAlt Plugin for WordPress 1.0.1

This release adds the Plugin Update Checker to allow for easy updates via the WordPress dashboard for all future releases.

EveryAlt WordPress Plugin 1.0 🚀

EveryAlt 1.0 — Release Notes

Alt text for every image. Zero limits. Totally free.

We're excited to introduce EveryAlt 1.0, a WordPress plugin that brings AI-powered alt text generation to your entire media library — with no caps, no tiers, and no cost from us.

How it works

EveryAlt connects to OpenAI using your own API key. When you upload an image (or run a bulk action on existing ones), the plugin sends the image to OpenAI's vision model and writes clear, descriptive alt text automatically. You pay OpenAI directly for what you use — we don't sit in the middle, and we don't charge a thing.

Your API key is stored encrypted in your WordPress database, and images are sent as base64, so the plugin works on localhost and behind HTTP auth without any extra configuration.

What's included in 1.0

Auto-generate on upload — Flip a single toggle in settings, and every new image gets alt text the moment it lands in your Media Library. No extra clicks required.

Bulk generate — Have a backlog of images missing alt text? The bulk tool lets you process hundreds of them in one pass.

Review and edit — Browse everything that already has alt text, make edits, or regenerate any image's description whenever you want.

Block editor integration — A generate button appears right inside the Image block, so you can create or refresh alt text without leaving the editor.

Media screen support — A button next to the alt text field on individual media items gives you one-click generation from the classic media view.

Logs and CSV export — Every generation is logged with its associated cost, and you can export the full history as a CSV for your records.

Requirements

• WordPress 5.5 or later
• PHP 7.0 or later
• An OpenAI API key with API access

Languages

EveryAlt ships translation-ready with support for Spanish, Italian, Japanese, French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, and Dutch. A .pot file is included in the languages/ directory for adding or updating translations.

Get started

1. Download the latest .zip from the [Releases page](https://github.com/EveryAlt/everyalt-wordpress-plugin/releases/).
2. Upload and activate the plugin in your WordPress admin.
3. Head to Media → EveryAlt → Settings and enter your OpenAI API key.
4. Start generating — automatically on upload, in bulk, or one image at a time.

No account to create. No upgrade prompts. Just better alt text across your entire site.

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EveryAlt is free, open-source (GPLv2), and built by [HDC](https://hdc.net).

EveryAlt WordPress Plugin 0.0.2

Thanks for using EveryAlt! In this release, we've made a handful of improvements as we prep the EveryAlt plugin for submission to the WordPress directory. We're still in Beta, so please anticipate frequent new releases in the coming weeks.

Changelog

• Adds the ability to generate alt text for images if your site is behind basic authentication (e.g. a dev site)
• Moves the EveryAlt menu item to the "Media" section rather than the "Settings" section of the sidebar
• Adds functionality to the Gutenberg Block Editor to generate or re-generate alt text for an image block
• Moves the "Generate Alt Text" button on individual Media Item editing pages closer to the actual alt text field
• Adds an option to allow you to choose whether or not to append the full text of an image to the alt text. If you choose this and upload a screenshot or image with lots of text, EveryAlt will return both a brief description and the full transcript of the text within the image.

Coming Soon

• Multilingual Output