Title: Caption text
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Caption text

 *  Resolved [bmayer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmayer/)
 * (@bmayer)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-text-4/)
 * For my gallery I want the alt text to appear below the thumbnail instead of the
   description. I want the description to appear when they click the thumbnail. 
   There used to be a “hack” to edit one of the .php files but with version 2.0.66
   this file doesn’t exist. Which file do you edit to change the caption to be the
   alt text? I use the shortcode for caption but it still shows the description 
   which is too long.
 * nextgen-gallery/view/gallery-caption.php
 * php echo $image->caption
    Change to: php echo $image->alttext
 * Thanks,
    Belinda
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 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-text-4/#post-5455158)
 * [@bmayer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmayer/) – You look to be on the
   right path with those changes … you may need to clear your image cache under 
   Gallery > Other Options > Miscellaneous and/or re-insert the display if you used
   the IGW (“green button”) to insert the display with.
 * – Cais.
 *  Thread Starter [bmayer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmayer/)
 * (@bmayer)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-text-4/#post-5455159)
 * Where do I make these changes though? It used to be in the gallery-caption.php
   file which was in the view subfolder, neither of which I can find in version 
   2.0.
 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-text-4/#post-5455161)
 * [@bmayer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmayer/) – See this path: `../wp-
   content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/
   view/gallery-caption.php`
 * Although I would recommend making a copy to work from and ensuring you have a
   back-up as it may get over-written with theme/plugin updates.
 * These are the locations we also current recommend for saving custom templates:
   `/
   wp-content/themes/[yourtheme]/nggallery/` … or … `/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-
   gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/`
 * – Cais.
 *  Thread Starter [bmayer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmayer/)
 * (@bmayer)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-text-4/#post-5455162)
 * Success! Thanks so much for your help, I never would have found the file.
 * It would be great if this could be made into an option in the dashboard.
 * Once again, thanks!
 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-text-4/#post-5455163)
 * [@bmayer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmayer/) – You are more than welcome
   to share your thoughts and ideas on this “option in the dashboard” as a Feature
   Request here: [http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/feature-voting/](http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/feature-voting/)
 * Thanks for letting us know this worked out for you, too.
 * – Cais.

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