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Automatically set the image Title, Alt-Text, Caption & Description upon upload
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/* Automatically set the image Title, Alt-Text, Caption & Description upon upload | |
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add_action( 'add_attachment', 'my_set_image_meta_upon_image_upload' ); | |
function my_set_image_meta_upon_image_upload( $post_ID ) { | |
// Check if uploaded file is an image, else do nothing | |
if ( wp_attachment_is_image( $post_ID ) ) { | |
$my_image_title = get_post( $post_ID )->post_title; | |
// Sanitize the title: remove hyphens, underscores & extra spaces: | |
$my_image_title = preg_replace( '%\s*[-_\s]+\s*%', ' ', $my_image_title ); | |
// Sanitize the title: capitalize first letter of every word (other letters lower case): | |
$my_image_title = ucwords( strtolower( $my_image_title ) ); | |
// Create an array with the image meta (Title, Caption, Description) to be updated | |
// Note: comment out the Excerpt/Caption or Content/Description lines if not needed | |
$my_image_meta = array( | |
'ID' => $post_ID, // Specify the image (ID) to be updated | |
'post_title' => $my_image_title, // Set image Title to sanitized title | |
'post_excerpt' => $my_image_title, // Set image Caption (Excerpt) to sanitized title | |
'post_content' => $my_image_title, // Set image Description (Content) to sanitized title | |
); | |
// Set the image Alt-Text | |
update_post_meta( $post_ID, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', $my_image_title ); | |
// Set the image meta (e.g. Title, Excerpt, Content) | |
wp_update_post( $my_image_meta ); | |
} | |
} |
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