Image Fields

What It Does

MerchantDrafts generates four text fields for the product's featured image:

• Alt text
• Title
• Caption
• Description

These appear in the Content tab under Image Fields so the operator can review them alongside the main product copy.

What Gets Updated

When image fields are written, MerchantDrafts updates the featured image attachment in WordPress:

• alt text -> _wp_attachment_image_alt
• title -> attachment post title
• caption -> attachment excerpt
• description -> attachment content

This means the image-field write path affects the actual media attachment, not only the current MerchantDrafts preview.

Where To Review Them

• Open a WooCommerce product.
• Generate content.
• Go to the Content tab.
• Look for the Image Fields panel.

If there is no featured image, the image-field section will not be useful because MerchantDrafts has no main product image to update.

How They Relate To Write To Product

Image fields are part of the Write to Product apply toggles.

• If Image Fields is checked, MerchantDrafts writes the generated image text to the featured image attachment when you apply.
• If it is unchecked, MerchantDrafts leaves the image attachment text alone.

What They Are Good For

• improving image accessibility with better alt text
• keeping media-library image metadata aligned with the product
• preparing cleaner image text for search, content reuse, and catalog hygiene

Important Scope Note

These fields apply to the featured image, not to every gallery image automatically.

Common Misunderstanding

Operators sometimes expect image fields to appear inside the Lifestyle Images workflow. They are separate:

• Image Fields = metadata for the featured product image
• Lifestyle Images = generated scene images and gallery curation