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AI Alt Text Generator · Version history

AI Alt Text Generator changelog and version history

Latest version
2.7.2
Oct 26, 2026 (14 days ago)
Releases
35
since 2024
In the last year
23
about one every 6 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20247 releases
  • 20255 releases
  • 202623 releases

202623 releases

  1. AI Alt Text Generator 2.7.2Latest

    • Fixed: “Your managed connection is invalid” after reconnecting. Clicking “Connect free credits” gives your site a new connection key, but a settings page that was already open still remembered the old one, and the next save (including pressing Start on the Bulk Generation tab) wrote the old key bac…

  2. AI Alt Text Generator 2.7.1

    • Security: generating alt text for a single image now checks that you are allowed to edit that image. Before, any logged-in user who could open the editor could regenerate the alt text (and, with mirroring on, the title, caption and description) of images they don’t own. The request also no longer a…

  3. AI Alt Text Generator 2.7.0

    • Fixed: the “never overwrite alt text containing” list did nothing. The field added in 2.6.0 sits on the Bulk Generation screen, and that screen had no Save control at all — so the words you typed never reached the server, and a bulk run replaced the alt text they were meant to protect. The screen n…
    • Improved: protected images no longer cost a credit. The keep-words check now runs before the image is sent to the AI, instead of throwing the answer away afterwards. Keeping your own alt text is free and bulk runs finish faster. When a run ends, it tells you how many images kept their existing text.
    • New: check an image before you run. The Testing tab now shows an image’s current alt text and says plainly whether a bulk run would keep it or replace it — no generation, no credit spent.
    • Fixed: “Bulk generation completed!” could appear while a run was still going. The two-second progress poll raced the start of the run and could read “0 of 0 images” as a finished one.
    • Fixed: the Testing tab was unusable on managed credits. It asked for an API key that managed-credit sites (the default) don’t have, leaving “Generate Alt Text” disabled with a misleading message.
    • Fixed: keep-words now match accented capitals, so a list containing “Löwe” also protects “LÖWE im Zoo”.
    • Fixed: a failed settings save no longer blanks the settings screen.
    • Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

  4. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.8

    • Fixed: “Unsupported parameter: ‘max_tokens’ is not supported with this model” when using GPT-5. GPT-5 (and OpenAI’s o-series) require max_completion_tokens instead of max_tokens and reject a custom temperature, so every generation failed for anyone who picked a GPT-5 model from the dropdown. The pl…
    • Fixed: GPT-5 could return empty alt text. Reasoning models spend part of their token budget on hidden reasoning, which the old 100-token cap could swallow whole. The budget is now sized for that, and if a model still runs out the error says so instead of “Invalid response from OpenAI API”.
    • Improved: an unrecognised model no longer fails the whole run. If OpenAI rejects one optional request parameter, the plugin retries without it, so a model family released after this version still works.

  5. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.7

    • Fixed: the “out of credits” banner stayed up after buying credits. It only cleared on the next successful generation, so a site that had just paid for a top-up still saw “out of credits” on the dashboard until it ran again. The plugin now re-checks the balance with the store (at most every 5 minute…
    • Improved: top-up credits are shown separately on the settings page (“4,917 credits left (0/50 plan + 4,917 top-up)”) instead of an odd-looking “4917/50”.

  6. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.6

    • Fixed: bulk generation retries provider failures instead of losing the image. A rate limit or provider timeout during a bulk run used to skip that image permanently on its first failure — one site lost 86 of 115 images to a single rate-limited hour. The runner now retries each failed image up to 3…
    • Fixed: bulk runs could silently skip images uploaded in the same second. The processing queue had no fixed order, so on libraries where many images share an upload time (any imported library), paging could walk past some images and revisit others. The queue is now processed in a fixed order.

  7. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.5

    • Fixed: switching the AI Provider in settings never saved. Changing the provider and pressing Save Changes silently kept the old provider — the select looked switched but the stored setting was unchanged, so Anthropic was unreachable through the UI. Thanks to the detailed community bug report for pi…
    • Fixed: Anthropic could not be used at all. Every bundled Claude model had been retired by Anthropic, and because key validation generated a test message with one of them, a perfectly valid API key reported “Failed to validate API key.” Validation no longer depends on any particular model, and the b…
    • Fixed: the Model setting was saved but never used. Both providers always generated with a hardcoded default; the model you chose is now actually sent with each request.
    • New: the Model field is a real dropdown of models your API key can use right now, fetched live from your provider (cached 12 hours, with a refresh button). If a saved model is ever retired again, the plugin automatically falls back to a current default instead of failing on every image — and the se…
    • Changed: the OpenAI default model is now gpt-4o instead of gpt-4o-mini. On image inputs OpenAI’s mini tier bills roughly 20x the image tokens, making gpt-4o-mini both more expensive per image and noticeably worse at alt text. Your saved model choice is respected either way.

  8. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.3

    • New: the plugin now tells you when it has run out of credits. Previously, if a bulk run hit the monthly limit overnight — or you navigated away mid-run — nothing said so afterwards, and new uploads quietly stopped getting alt text. A notice now appears in your dashboard and Media Library explaining…

  9. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.2

    • Fixed: bulk generation could die a few images into a large run. A single failed request — a hosting timeout, a momentary 500, a burst limit on admin requests — used to kill the whole run silently. Failed requests are now retried up to 3 times with growing pauses, and if the run still has to stop, i…
    • Fixed: bulk generation sent full-size original images to the AI provider. Very large originals (big photography uploads) could exhaust PHP memory or time limits and break the run at a consistent point. It now sends a resized rendition — faster, lighter on the server, cheaper on your API key, and ju…
    • Fixed: the “images without alt text” bulk run from the settings page could skip images and finish early. The same shrinking-queue bug fixed for background runs in 2.5.5 also affected the settings-page runner; a 500-image run could silently miss up to half the library. Both runners now use the same…
    • The completion message now reports how many images were skipped due to errors instead of always claiming full success.

  10. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.1

    • Fixed: bulk generation no longer keeps retrying after your credits run out. It used to treat “out of credits” like a single bad image and carry on to the next one, so a large library produced hundreds of failed attempts in a row while the progress bar told you nothing. It now stops as soon as it hi…
    • Bulk generation now explains why it stopped — out of credits, account not activated, or a connection problem — and tells you how many images it finished before stopping. Everything generated up to that point is saved.
    • The same rule applies to the Media Library bulk action running in the background.

  11. AI Alt Text Generator 2.6.0

    • New: protect alt text you wrote yourself. Under Bulk Generation, list words such as “logo” or “sponsor” and any image whose current alt text contains one of them is left untouched — even with “Process All Images” turned on. Matching ignores case and works inside longer words, so “logo” also protect…
    • The new rule applies everywhere alt text is saved: bulk runs, single images, on upload, and WP-CLI.

  12. AI Alt Text Generator 2.5.5

    • Fixed: the Media Library “Generate Alt Text” bulk action only ever processed the first selected image. The background job that handles the rest exited immediately because the bulk action never flagged a run as started, so the remaining images were silently dropped.
    • Fixed: bulk generation ignored your selection. Once the background job did run, it worked through the whole media library instead of the images you picked. It now processes exactly the selection.
    • Fixed: bulk runs skipped images. When generating for “images without alt text”, the queue shrank as images were processed while the read position kept advancing, so a large run could silently miss a substantial share of the library.
    • Fixed: an image that failed to generate could stall a bulk run instead of being skipped.
    • Bulk generation now applies the Title / Caption / Description settings and add-on filters, matching single-image generation.
    • The Media Library bulk action now reports what happened (started, nothing selected, or a run already in progress) instead of redirecting silently.

  13. AI Alt Text Generator 2.5.4

    • Fixed: managed credits now actually generate alt text. A result-format mismatch caused managed-mode generation to fail on every path (bulk, single, upload, WP-CLI). This was the root cause behind “nothing happens” reports in managed mode.
    • Works out of the box: new installs connect to managed credits automatically and get 50 free images per month — no API key, no signup, no email required.
    • Bulk Generate now works in managed-credit mode (the Start button no longer requires an API key).
    • Clear, actionable errors when credits run out, an account needs attention, or the service is unreachable — instead of silent failures.
    • New: alt-text coverage dashboard widget showing how many images still need alt text.
    • Low-credit warning in settings so you know before you run out.
    • Already have a paid plan? Paste your API token from your dashboard to connect this site.
    • Accessibility framing updated for WCAG 1.1.1 and the European Accessibility Act.

  14. AI Alt Text Generator 2.5.3

    • Settings: managed credits (no API key needed) is now the recommended option, shown first; using your own API key is presented as an “Advanced” option below

  15. AI Alt Text Generator 2.5.2

    • Fix: the “Upgrade to Pro” panel now renders inside the settings screen so it’s always fully visible (the previous admin-notice version could be covered by the settings header)

  16. AI Alt Text Generator 2.5.1

    • New: optional managed credits mode — generate alt text with no API key needed (free monthly images via the AI Alt Text Generator service). Bring-your-own-key remains fully supported and free.
    • Future-proofed model handling: no hard-coded model versions; the default model is filterable (aatg_default_model), and the deprecated GPT-4 Vision Preview was removed.
    • Connect and manage a managed-credits account from the General settings tab.

  17. AI Alt Text Generator 2.5.0

    • New: optionally also set the image Title, Caption, and Description from the generated alt text (toggles on the settings page)
    • Expanded language support from 13 to ~48 languages
    • Settings UI refinements

  18. AI Alt Text Generator 2.4.1

    • Fix: the “Upgrade to Pro” notice on the settings page is now fully visible (moved to the standard admin notice area)

  19. AI Alt Text Generator 2.4.0

    • WCAG-aligned alt text by default: concise, purpose-driven output with no “image of” filler and a sensible length, better for screen readers and SEO
    • SEO focus-keyphrase integration: automatically incorporates the keyphrase from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and SEOPress (filterable; no keyword stuffing)
    • Page-context awareness: uses the title of the page/post an image belongs to for more relevant descriptions
    • Higher-quality, lower-cost image sampling: sends an appropriately sized image instead of a tiny thumbnail or the full-size original
    • Refreshed accessibility-first positioning (WCAG 2.2 / ADA / EAA)

  20. AI Alt Text Generator 2.3.2

    • Introduced an optional Pro upgrade: WooCommerce product context, scheduled background scans, and a coverage analytics dashboard (https://store.lessbutmore.ai)
    • Added contextual Pro information on the plugin’s own settings page (shown only there; hidden when Pro is active)

  21. AI Alt Text Generator 2.3.1

    • Updated the plugin homepage link
    • Corrected the stable tag so the 2.3.x release is delivered to all sites

  22. AI Alt Text Generator 2.3.0

    • Added developer extensibility hooks so companion add-ons can extend alt text generation without modifying the plugin
    • New filters: aatg_providers, aatg_generate_provider, aatg_generate_prompt, aatg_generate_language, aatg_pre_generate_alt_text, aatg_generate_result, and aatg_alt_text
    • New action: aatg_after_generate (fires after alt text is generated and saved)
    • Introduced a shared aatg_save_generated_alt_text() helper used across the single, bulk, on-upload, REST, and WP-CLI paths
    • No changes to existing behavior; tested up to WordPress 6.9

  23. AI Alt Text Generator 2.2.0

    • Added WP-CLI support: wp ai-alt-text activate, wp ai-alt-text generate, and wp ai-alt-text status
    • Bulk-generate alt text from the command line across many sites
    • activate configures the AI provider and API key (with optional live key validation)
    • generate supports –limit, –provider override, –force, –ids, –dry-run, and –yes flags
    • status reports the active provider, configured keys (masked), prompt/language, and alt text coverage counts
    • WordPress 6.8.1 compatibility maintained

20255 releases

  1. AI Alt Text Generator 2.1.2

    • Removed debug logging statements for production release
    • Cleaned up error_log calls throughout the codebase
    • Improved performance by removing unnecessary logging overhead

  2. AI Alt Text Generator 2.1.1

    • Restored language settings in admin interface
    • Updated support information for WordPress Plugin Directory
    • Fixed UI elements for better user experience
    • Minor bug fixes and improvements

  3. AI Alt Text Generator 2.1

  4. AI Alt Text Generator 2.0.9

  5. AI Alt Text Generator 2.0.8

20247 releases

  1. AI Alt Text Generator 2.0.71

  2. AI Alt Text Generator 2.0.7

  3. AI Alt Text Generator 2.0.6

  4. AI Alt Text Generator 2.0.5

  5. AI Alt Text Generator v2.0.5

  6. AI Alt Text Generator 2.0.1

  7. AI Alt Text Generator 1.0

Questions about AI Alt Text Generator’s releases

What is the latest version of AI Alt Text Generator?

2.7.2, released on Oct 26, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.0 or later.

How often is AI Alt Text Generator updated?

23 releases in the last year, about one every 6 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2024.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in AI Alt Text Generator’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.