Image Alt Text vs Image Title in WordPress

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hey there and thanks for watching WP beginner today we'll look at the difference between image alt text versus image title text in WordPress and ALT text or alternate text is an attribute added to an image tag in HTML this will appear inside the image container when the image can't be displayed like this it helps the search engines understand what the image is about it's also helpful if an image can't be found an image title tag is another HTML attribute but instead of going inside the image container you'll see the image title when you Mouse over the photo like this these two attributes are used to improve accessibility online for those with poor vision or for screen reader devices so let's add an ALT Tag and Title tag to an image in WordPress I'm in a new post and I'll upload an image from here when I first upload the image you'll see these options over here I can fill out the alt text down here and this title is actually used for WordPress this is not the title attribute we're talking about to get the title tag I'll insert the image into my post then hover over it to get the pencil icon and edit now I want to go to advance options and add the image title attribute here then click update if you use the text editor you can just edit the images from here and now you have the alt and title tags on your images I hope you like this video and found it helpful if you did click on the like button below and leave us a comment and if you want to rece receive more helpful videos don't forget to subscribe to our Channel and check out wpbeginner.com for more useful information on WordPress