I’ve had a site running for 2 years now using Wordpress. Late last year I had a professional company redesign our site. They said at the time they had issues with some of our images but got everything fixed (they had to redo them all or something)

Anyway we recently noticed that some of our articles pre redesign suddenly didn’t have any images. We’re a news site so we had 3,000 articles at the time and wernt going through them all. Looking into it today we noticed that a bunch were blank and had the “this image has an empty alt attribute” message where all the images should be.

This is a huge pain and likely affected our ranking on many articles and we’re not sure how to fix it. No alt text should affect SEO not outright make the image blank.

Any suggestions?