[Resolved] Displaying alt text with [wpv-post-featured-image] with a custom size

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[Chris]

I was trying to insert post data in a View with a featured image. The featured image size was set to a custom size of 100 x 100 px.

This was my shortcode:

[wpv-post-featured-image size="custom" width="100" height="100" crop="true"]

I found that the rendered image didn't show the alt attribute for the image.

If I used one of the default image sizes instead and just used the [wpv-post-featured-image] shortcode it worked as expected.

The workaround has been to add a new image size to functions.php and select the image size from the dropdown list of featured image sizes.

Screenshots attached.

Can you explain why the original shortcode didn't work as expected?

[Shane]

Hi Chris,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

So the issue you are having currently is the this shortcode here :
[wpv-post-featured-image] Displays ALT text
[wpv-post-featured-image size="custom" width="100" height="100" crop="true"] This does not?

Correct?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Shane

[Chris]

Hi Shane

Yes, that's correct. If a custom size parameter is set in the [wpv-post-featured-image] shortcode the ALT text does not show in the html. All other pre-defined sizes set in the shortcode output the ALT text properly, eg [wpv-post-featured-image size="medium"] outputs the ALT text.

Thanks,
Chris

[Shane]

Hi Chris,

I took a look at this in a clean install of wordpress, however I was not able to experience this issue as the ALT text shows up for both variations of the shortcode.

Could you try temporarily disabling all your non-toolset plugins and checking to see if the alt text shows up ? As this could be because of a plugin conflict.

Thanks,
Shane