id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
14282	the_post_thumbnail and get_the_post_thumbnail don't populate the images alt text correctly	msigley		"Recently was adding in Post Thumbnails for a client's blog and discovered that the ""the_post_thumbnail()"" function doesn't return an img tag populated by the alt text set for the image in the media gallery.

Did come up with a workaround though:


{{{
$thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id();
$thumbnail_alt_text = get_post_meta($thumbnail_id,
'_wp_attachment_image_alt', true);
the_post_thumbnail(array(150,150), ""alt=$thumbnail_alt_text"");
}}}


This should be a simple fix of editing the function's output in wp-includes/post-thumbnail-template.php."	defect (bug)	new	normal	Future Release	Post Thumbnails	3.0	normal		reporter-feedback