Is Missing Alt Text Quietly Hurting Your WordPress SEO?

Missing alt text on WordPress images can quietly hurt SEO by removing a clear signal for Google's crawler, making it harder to rank in image search. This affects not just Google, but also AI search tools and assistants. To fix this, review and add alt text to existing images, and consider implementing a solution to prevent future instances of missing alt text. This is a widespread problem on WordPress due to the lack of warnings or nagging for empty alt fields.