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Alt Tag in Slider Images

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Started 2 years ago by wykdfantasy
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wykdfantasy
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I have been searching through the PHP files trying to find out where the output for the home page slider is built so I can have it automatically take the image title and use that for the Alt Tag. Pasted below is a copy of the output of my page of the area I am trying to change, as you can see the Alt tag is blank, where in the PHP is that output built so I can change it to fill in the Alt tag:

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<div class="feature_wrap">



<ul class='slideshow aviaslider'>
<li class='featured featured1'>
<span>
<img src='REMOVED' alt='' title='Check Out Our New Truck Side Logo' /></span>

<li class='featured featured2'>
<a href='http://www.choreboyz.net/our-company/'>
<img src='REMOVED' alt='' title='Check Out Our New Truck Rear Logo' /></a>





</div>

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Posted 2 years ago #

Dude
Dude

Please use backtick ( ` ) to post code.

To fill the alt attribute with text you need to modifiy kriesi_post_thumb.php which is located under avisio > framework > helper_functions

Replace this line:

$defaultimage = $linkwrap[0]."<img ".$img_attr_string." src='".$image_URL."' alt='' title='".get_the_title()."' height='".$option['wh']['height'] ." ' width='".$option['wh']['width'] ."' />".$linkwrap[1];

with:

$defaultimage = $linkwrap[0]."<img ".$img_attr_string." src='".$image_URL."' alt='".get_the_title()."' title='".get_the_title()."' height='".$option['wh']['height'] ." ' width='".$option['wh']['width'] ."' />".$linkwrap[1];

The Dude

Posted 2 years ago #

wykdfantasy
Member

You are the man! I should have asked, with that same line above, rather than using the image title, when you view the image in Wordpress Media section it has a field for the Alt Attribute, is there a way to use that rather than the title? If not the title will do fine.

If I may, I might suggest implementing this into your next version, as this is a big SEO thing, to make sure all images have an alt title. Your template is just wonderful and small updates like this are what make it top notch, thank you!

Posted 2 years ago #
Dude
Dude
Have a look at this page: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-alternate-text-from-attachments

Maybe this solution works - you need to write
alt='".$alt."'
instead of
alt='".get_the_title()."'
and copy&paste this line
```
$alt = get_post_meta($attachment_id, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true);
if(count($alt)) echo $alt;
```
before the code I posted above. I've not tested it though.
Posted 2 years ago #
tombynum
Member

I'm attempting to get this to work over in the BrightBox theme... Which PHP file controls that lightbox pop-up with someone clicks on an image...?

Thnx

Posted 1 year ago #
tombynum
Member

Just to be complete in what I'm looking for...

Using Brightbox: the prettyphoto plugin currently pulls up the "Caption" text that is defined in WP Media Manager for any particular photo, but it doesn't display the Title, Alt or Description elements.

I would specifically like to include either the Alt or Description elements in the prettyphoto pop-ups for my images.

I can see over on http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com that prettyphoto is perfectly capable of displaying what I want... but I can't find where it is being called from the theme itself...

Posted 1 year ago #
Dude
Dude

Hey,
yes - the Lightbox Javascript currently doesn't support all attributes. I reported it to Kriesi some time ago but I'm not sure if he'll release an update. However an user: http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/pretty-photo-does-not-show-description posted a custom mod.

Posted 1 year ago #