Plugin that hide all title attribute-tags from images in posts.
As of April 2026, Img Title Removal is a WordPress img plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 18K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 6% this week. Top alternative: Automatic image ALT attributes.
Normally the title attribute of an image show up when hovering the mouse over an image. This behavior can easily be avoided by removing the title attribute-tag from the image. However if the site is already crowded with hundreds of images, removing each and every title attribute-tag can be a time consuming job. This plugin simply filters out all title attribute-tags before they are sent out to the browser. Install into the theme plugin directory, activate, and you’re done! No more titles show up when hovering the mouse over images on your site!
All the plugin do is adding a hook to ‘the_content’ and to ‘post_thumbnail_html’ and removes all title-tags before they are sent to the browser. The plugin will only work for what is contained in ‘th…
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WARNING: this plugin strips the title attribute from *all* HTML tags. This includes a tags which will effect any backlinks you may have setup. Additional, this plugin creates malformed data- attributes. For instance data-title="my data title" becomes data-
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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