Empty Alt Text? Let Claude Write It — AI Image Metadata for WordPress
Every image you upload to WordPress has four empty text fields. Most of them never get filled in.
Alt text, title, caption, description — WordPress stores all four for every attachment, and they matter. Alt text is what screen readers announce and what Google reads to understand your images. Good captions and descriptions help both. But writing them by hand, one image at a time, across a library of hundreds? That's the job nobody ever gets to.
AI Image Metadata by Dependent Media does it for you. It looks at each image with Claude (Anthropic) vision and writes all four fields — accurate, concise, and tuned for accessibility and SEO.
One image, or your entire library
Open any attachment and generate metadata on the spot — you review the suggestions and save only what you like. Or select hundreds of images at once and run a background batch with a live progress bar, a timer, and an estimated finish time. Nothing is written until you choose to apply it.
You're in control of the voice — and the cost
- Pick a voice: SEO-descriptive, Editorial, or Minimal.
- Choose your model to balance quality and price.
- Protect what you've written: leave "only fill empty fields" on and the plugin skips anything you've already filled in. Turn it off to refresh everything.
- Write in your language: an output-language option means metadata comes back in the language your audience reads.
No middleman. No monthly fee.
This is the part that makes it different: you bring your own Anthropic API key. There's no subscription to Dependent Media for usage and no service sitting between you and the AI. You pay Anthropic directly for exactly what you use — typically just a few cents to a dollar for a whole library, because images are downscaled before they're sent. Your key is stored encrypted in your database, and your original files are never touched.
Built for people who manage a lot of sites
If you run more than one WordPress site, the little things add up. AI Image Metadata adds an "AI Metadata" status column to your Media list so you can see at a glance what still needs work, a "Test connection" button with a cost estimate before you commit, and a WP-CLI command (wp dm-aim generate) for scripting bulk runs across a fleet. Rate limits are handled automatically with retry-and-backoff, so big jobs just finish.
Supports JPEG, PNG, WebP, and GIF.
Get it
Licensed sites get automatic updates delivered straight to the WordPress dashboard. (Add your price / license terms here.)
AI Image Metadata by Dependent Media is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. "Claude" and "Anthropic" are trademarks of Anthropic, used here only to describe the service the plugin integrates with. The plugin sends a downscaled copy of the images you choose to process to the Anthropic API only when you trigger generation.