AI Automated Image Manager

Fix alt text at the speed of a spreadsheet.

If you've ever sat in the WordPress media library fixing alt text for 200 images one modal at a time, you know exactly why this plugin exists. The media library is built for browsing and uploading — it was never built for the one job SEO agencies actually spend hours on: writing accurate alt text, titles, and captions for a whole library, fast.

AI Automated Image Manager is a single flat screen. Every image, every field, inline editable, auto-saving as you tab through. No modals. No reloads. No page-at-a-time clicking. It writes to the native WordPress fields every theme and SEO plugin already reads, so your work shows up everywhere it should without migration, sync, or a proprietary storage layer.

What's in the free plugin

• Inline list editor — alt, title, caption, editable in-place with auto-save on blur. Tab moves to the next field. Enter moves to the next row.
• Live length indicator on alt text, against the 125-character WCAG soft cap (configurable).
• The filters agencies actually need — missing alt, missing title, missing caption, filter by post type the image is used in, by a specific post, by WP tag, by filename.
• "Used in" column — see every post that references each image (featured image, block editor, classic editor, gallery shortcode), backed by a small usage-index table for speed. Incrementally updated on every post save, with a manual "rebuild all" option in Tools for existing sites.
• Front-end alt enforcer — optional filter that makes sure the alt text you stored is the alt text that actually renders on your pages, even if a theme or block tries to override it.
• CSV import/export — round-trip the whole library through a spreadsheet for bulk workflows. Safe: matches on attachment ID, not filename.
• Native WP storage — _wp_attachment_image_alt, post_title, post_excerpt. Zero proprietary data. Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, every theme — all just work.

What Pro adds

• AI vision generation — the AI sees the image and writes alt, title, and caption from the visual content itself. Best for stock images, screenshots, product photography, anything where the filename tells you nothing.
• AI text generation from context — cheaper and faster than vision. Uses the filename, existing metadata, and the title + intro of the post the image is embedded in. Ideal for editorial and blog images where context does the work.
• Bulk AI with a review queue — queue hundreds of images for generation, approve or reject suggestions one at a time, or accept in bulk. Nothing is written until you approve it. Existing values are shown side-by-side with proposed ones.
• Use your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription — Pro uses your personal Claude Pro/Max or ChatGPT Plus subscription via a secure relay. No per-token fees, no separate API billing, no hidden "AI credits" to buy. Flat monthly cost that matches the subscription you already pay for.
• Prompt controls — alt-length cap pulled from the free plugin's setting, automatic stripping of filler openers like "Image of" and "Photo of", language follows your site locale.

Who it's for

• SEO agencies auditing client sites with hundreds or thousands of images and no existing alt text.
• Accessibility consultants enforcing WCAG compliance across a media library.
• In-house marketing teams fixing technical SEO debt before launching a new site or migrating from another CMS.
• Anyone who's ever stared at the WordPress media modal and wondered why there isn't a spreadsheet view.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.2 or newer
• PHP 8.1 or newer
• MariaDB or MySQL (uses standard WP database layer)
• Pro: a license from plugins.lennartoester.com

Compatibility

Designed to be quiet and well-behaved. No menu hijacking, no dashboard widgets, no upsell nags inside the free screen. Plays nicely alongside:

• Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress
• All major block editor and classic editor workflows
• Gutenberg galleries, block-image markup, classic <img> tags, and [gallery] shortcodes
• Any caching or image-optimization plugin (no front-end output by default unless you enable the alt enforcer)

Privacy

• The free plugin sends nothing off your server.
• Pro text mode sends filename, existing fields, and surrounding post text to your selected AI provider via the relay — no image data.
• Pro vision mode sends the public attachment URL only when you explicitly request a vision generation for that image.
• The relay authenticates with a Bearer license key; your AI subscription token is sent once per request as oauth_token and is never stored on our side.