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Fix Alt Text · Version history

Fix Alt Text changelog and version history

Latest version
1.9.1
May 5, 2025 (1 year ago)
Releases
31
since 2022
In the last year
0
Tested up to
WordPress 6.8.12
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 202213 releases
  • 202313 releases
  • 20244 releases
  • 20251 release

20251 release

  1. Fix Alt Text 1.9.1Latest

    • *Release Date – 05 May 2025
    • Bug Fix: Empty space in the content was causing a fatal error during the scan causing the scan to get hung. Thank you @websitesbuiltforyou
    • Bug Fix: Scan::stop_all_scans() was throwing fatal error on migration upgrade for version 1.3 due to a wrong class reference.
    • Bug Fix: When editing a post, the force alt text was not prompting the user before they attempt to save the post.
    • Bug Fix: PHP Warning fixed regarding calling translations too early
    • Bug Fix: Menu should not be listed as a potion to scan; it has been removed.
    • Security: Uninstall script when accessed directly was not verifying that the user had capability to delete plugins
    • Note: Version 2.0 will have minimum requirements of WP v6.1.0 and PHP 8.1.0
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.8.1

20244 releases

  1. Fix Alt Text 1.9.0

    • *Release Date – 31 Aug 2024
    • New Feature: Detects whether the alt text contains backslash characters.
    • New Feature: Added ability to hide columns in the Alt Text references table using the screen options tab at the top-left of the screen.
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.7.1
    • Minor Improvement: Removed max-width on table showing all the alt text references. This will allow users to view on larger screens to accommodate checking alt text with longer values
    • Bug Fix: When alt text was being displayed within the table as a preview, it was being truncated to 255 character and gave the false impression that the real alt text was also truncated.
    • Bug Fix: When a term description was updated and involved an image with alt text, the term was not getting rescanned and displaying updated info in plugin
    • Bug Fix: When a term was deleted, the alt text data was not being removed from the database
    • Bug Fix: When saving a post, the alt text within the content of that post was showing escaping slashes in the value when inline editing the alt text. Thank you @avisato

  2. Fix Alt Text 1.8.1

    • *Release Date – 16 Aug 2024
    • Minor Improvement: Updates to the changelog

  3. Fix Alt Text 1.8.0

    • Release Date – 16 Aug 2024
    • New Feature: Issues can now be toggled on/off within local and network settings (multisite)
    • New Feature: Minimum words for alt text can be modified within local and network settings (multisite)
    • New Feature: Maximum characters for alt text can be modified within local and network settings (multisite)
    • New Feature: Added filter fixalttext_get_issues to allow developers the ability to add their own custom issues
    • Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.7.0
    • Improvement: Removed sorting for the alt text column in the references table. It was not very helpful to sort these values.
    • Minor Improvement: On the settings page, converted the text notifying the user that the network settings are being used into an actual admin notice box.
    • Bug Fix: Alt text length was unintentionally being truncated in specific scenarios to a length of 256 characters if the value was longer. Thank you @avisato
    • Bug Fix: Migration script for version 1.3.0 was referencing the incorrect URL in the upgrade notice.
    • Bug Fix: While using XDebug to troubleshoot issues in PHP, the wp heartbeat would interrupt the process.cd trunk
    • Deprecated Filter: fixalttext_issues_color_key has been deprecated. Please use replacement fixalttext_get_issues filter to adjust the color scheme of issues on the issues pie chart.
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.6.1

  4. Fix Alt Text 1.7.0

    • Release Date – 25 Mar 2024
    • New Feature: A Scan can be paused and resumed
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.6.0
    • Minor Improvement: Added JPE file extension as a valid mime type
    • Bug Fix: While using the block editor in other languages, alt text was not validating and prompting the user to input alt text for images. Thank you @wmaas.
    • Bug Fix: File extensions were sometimes including GET variables during a scan (run a new full scan to fix)
    • Bug Fix: Dropdown file types filter contain invalid file types due to GET variables (run a new full scan to fix)
    • Bug Fix: Invalid file types in issues discovered due to GET variables (run a new full scan to fix)
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.4.3

202313 releases

  1. Fix Alt Text 1.6.1

    • Release Date – 21 Sep 2023
    • Bug Fix: The scan was exceeding the default memory limit when running the background process causing the scan the stall until the user cancelled the scan. This was preventing the plugin to fully scan the site.
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.3.1

  2. Fix Alt Text 1.6.0

    • Release Date – 28 Jul 2023
    • Improvement: Converted Helpers Library to be under the plugin’s namespace to prevent conflicts with other plugins using the same dependency
    • Minor Improvement: Optimized the uninstall cleanup script
    • Bug fix: custom db tables were not being removed when the plugin was deleted from the site.
    • Bug Fix: custom db tables were not being created in various scenarios

  3. Fix Alt Text 1.5.0

    • Release Date – 13 Jul 2023
    • Improvement: Added compatibility with Network Media Library plugin for WordPress
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.5.0
    • Bug Fix: Error encountered when inline editing alt text of an image in the media library. Only occurs in a multisite environment when using the Network Shared Media Library plugin and the image was uploaded from a non-primary site.

  4. Fix Alt Text 1.4.4

    • Release Date – 31 May 2023
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.4.1
    • Bug fix: Javascript error occurs when selecting a PDF in media libary modal
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.2.2

  5. Fix Alt Text 1.4.3

    • Release Date – 17 May 2023
    • Improvement: switch the keyup listener to use input for detecting changes of alt text input fields to be more reliable
    • Bug Fix: After sending a post to the trash, references associated with the post still appear in References table
    • Bug Fix: Attachment references were not getting removed from references table when deleted.
    • Bug Fix: Force alt text alert was causing false positives when the media library modal is accessed, closed, then accessed again on the post edit screen int he admin.

  6. Fix Alt Text 1.4.2

    • Release Date – 21 Apr 2023
    • Bug Fix: Inline editing was encountering an error in specific scenarios: image_url_mismatch

  7. Fix Alt Text 1.4.1

    • Release Date – 14 Apr 2023
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.4.0
    • Security: Improved sanitation of data

  8. Fix Alt Text 1.4.0

    • Release Date – 05 Apr 2023
    • Improvement: Search now includes the title of the attachment or post in the “from” column
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.3.7
    • Bug Fix: Deprecated PHP notice – PHP 8.2 deprecated sending null to trim()
    • Bug Fix: PHP Fatal error occurred if mbstring non-default extension was not installed. Fallback implemented.
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.2.0

  9. Fix Alt Text 1.3.9

    • Release Date – 10 Mar 2023
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.3.6
    • Bug Fix: The plugin directory constant values were incorrect if site_url() and admin_url() do not have the same HTTP protocol.
    • Bug Fix: Prevent update of plugin if it is under local git control

  10. Fix Alt Text 1.3.8

    • Release Date – 9 Mar 2023
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library 1.3.5
    • Bug Fix: Fixed fatal error related to multisite installations. Issue occurs when a previous blog has been deleted and a new blog is created. The new blog’s IDs increments and no longer matches the assumed corresponding index within the full array of blogs.
    • Bug Fix: The database tables were not getting created on plugin activation for a multisite.

  11. Fix Alt Text 1.3.7

    • Release Date – 3 Mar 2023
    • Bug Fix: JavaScript error when the issues chart attempts to display when there are no issues found.
    • Bug Fix: Inline editing did not work for images directly located in the media library
    • Bug Fix: When uploading an attachment, the attachment was not automatically scanned into the system

  12. Fix Alt Text 1.3.6

    • Release Date – 3 Mar 2023
    • Bug Fix: Activating plugin on a multisite caused fatal error

  13. Fix Alt Text 1.3.5

    • Release Date – 19 Jan 2023
    • Bug Fix: Inline edit feature was not compatible with post meta that was stored as an array or an object.
    • Bug Fix: Sometimes alt text would be marked as having code in it if a quote mark was in the alt text.

202213 releases

  1. Fix Alt Text 1.3.4

    • Release Date – 29 Nov 2022
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library dependency
    • Bug Fix: Scan duration details should not display 0 days, 0 hours, etc.
    • Bug Fix: Scan is showing a message that a scan is needed when it is actually not
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.1.1

  2. Fix Alt Text 1.3.3

    • Release Date – 09 Nov 2022
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library dependency
    • Bug Fix: Migration script wasn’t single site compatible
    • Bug Fix: When scan menus option changed in settings, the user was not being notified that a new scan was needed.
    • Bug Fix: Headers sent prematurely when displaying admin notice if updating plugin while another plugin is using an older version of Helpers Library
    • Bug Fix: Scans involving thousands of users, or terms would run out of memory due to meta caching
    • Bug Fix: There was a rare possibility that a post gets queued and then the post is deleted before the background scan processes it, which could cause the progress bar to stall on the dashboard.
    • Note: Tested up to: 6.1.0

  3. Fix Alt Text 1.3.1

    • Release Date – 27 Oct 2022
    • Minor Improvement: Updated Helpers Library dependency
    • Security: Removed usernames from the scan users queue file

  4. Fix Alt Text 1.3.0

    • Release Date – 26 Oct 2022
    • New Feature: Filter “fixalttext_excluded_post_types” has been added to allow modification of post types excluded from scans
    • New Feature: Filter “fixalttext_excluded_taxonomies” has been added to allow modification of post types excluded from scans
    • Improvement: Debug logging is more efficient
    • Improvement: Scan was revised to now handle very large databases and use less resources
    • Improvement: Updated recommended taxonomies and post types to scan. Please review your settings.
    • Bug Fix: Uninstall script fixed
    • Bug Fix: The plugin was initializing on the init hook, but activation hooks do not work on the init hook and were causing loading issues when plugin was activated.
    • Bug Fix: Retrieving settings in a single site install were failing
    • Bug Fix: Scan would run out of memory when trying to queue 400K posts
    • Bug Fix: Post was not getting rescanned after it has been updated
    • Security: Minor XSS Escaping within a user protected area

  5. Fix Alt Text 1.2.0

    • Release Date – 20 Oct 2022
    • New Feature: Debug area for troubleshooting scan issues. Debug mode must be turned on in settings before it will appear.
    • New Feature: Detects invalid image src URLs and invalid image types
    • New Feature: Records plugin version history to assist troubleshooting issues
    • New Feature: Detects image alt text located in post excerpts
    • Improvement: Converted all AJAX requests to JSON responses
    • Improvement: Upgraded to Chart.js v3.8.0
    • Improvement: Implemented standard security class to handle consistent sanitization
    • Improvement: Styling and code standardization to make maintenance easier
    • Improvement: Added Helpers_Library 1.1.0 dependency
    • Improvement: Added upgrade migration scripts
    • Improvement: On multisite, you can now navigate to the network settings from the site settings tab
    • Improvement: DB table columns tuned for performance
    • Improvement: Renamed issue names to be more descriptive (rescan required on update)
    • Improvement: Moved filters into the column headings and now applied automatically on change
    • Improvement: Filters are highlighted blue when applied
    • Improvement: Converted inline edit text input to a textarea field for better ease of editing. Thanks Rick Barley!
    • Improvement: Added auto focus on the inline edit field to save a click. Thanks Rick Barley!
    • Minor Improvement: Refactored compatibility checks
    • Bug Fix: Uninstall script didn’t remove scheduled crons
    • Bug Fix: Conditional empty checks did not exist before iterating over various settings. Could result in PHP error.
    • Bug Fix: Plugin options cache was not being cleared properly
    • Bug Fix: Missing tag in settings DOM
    • Bug Fix: WP Crons did not have a consistent prefix
    • Bug Fix: Updated links to # to include an actual target to stop jumping to the top of the screen
    • Bug Fix: JS and CSS assets had a double slash in the URL. Thanks @amundsan
    • Bug Fix: Scan complete notification had a broken link to scan details
    • Bug Fix: Scan was picking up attachments in the Media Library that were not images
    • Bug Fix: When uninstalling the plugin it threw an error
    • Bug Fix: Could not start a new scan if a previous scan was interrupted by deactivating the plugin or some other unexpected action.

  6. Fix Alt Text 1.1.4

    • Release Date – 15 Sep 2022
    • Minor Improvement: Added consistency with how constants were defined
    • Minor Improvement: Updated version release key in changelog
    • Minor Improvement: Code formatting
    • Bug Fix: User could save draft without being prompted to add alt text
    • Bug Fix: hardcoded wp-admin references were breaking Bedrock compatibility. Thanks @amundsan
    • Note: Tested up to 6.0.2

  7. Fix Alt Text 1.1.3

    • Release Date – 09 Aug 2022
    • Minor Improvement: Added versions key to Changelog
    • Bug Fix: JS assets were not loaded when adding a new post.

  8. Fix Alt Text 1.1.2

  9. Fix Alt Text 1.1.1

  10. Fix Alt Text 1.1.0

  11. Fix Alt Text 1.0.2

  12. Fix Alt Text 1.0.1

  13. Fix Alt Text 1.0.0

Questions about Fix Alt Text’s releases

What is the latest version of Fix Alt Text?

1.9.1, released on May 5, 2025 (1 year ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.8.12 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Fix Alt Text updated?

It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 1 year ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2022.

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