A Wordpress media library can easily become muddled-- you may load more than one version of an image and only remember this later when you go to alter that image and have a hard time finding it. Another dilemma you may run across is that if you make the image titles something funny and distinct, when you mouse over the image you see this weird title pop up on your website or blog.
The solution to this is very simple and one that's easily overlooked. When you are in your dashboard look under the "Media" category and go into your"Library" here you see all the images and icons you've ever loaded.
Simple select "edit" in the menu that pops up when you hover over a title. This should pull up all the info for that image. Here you'll see the title to the image but look below to the catagory called "Alternate Text". This is the are where you can put the actual name you want a visitor to your site to see when they mouse over your image. Use the main title for your own purposes if you need to. You can keep the original title hidden and use it for indexing.
Also note that when you are viewing all images in the media library if you look across the categories of information you will see one called "attached to" and this will tell you where the image is currently being used in your site or the "Location of the uploaded file."
Also note that when you are viewing all images in the media library if you look across the categories of information you will see one called "attached to" and this will tell you where the image is currently being used in your site or the "Location of the uploaded file."
A tricky thing here to note is that if you load an image and then remove it form the site afterwards but want to keep in in the Media Library the file will still be noted as located in the page you originally upload it to. Hence my interest in using titles as labels!
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