Title: Caption vs. Description
Last modified: June 4, 2018

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# Caption vs. Description

 *  Resolved [Sandy Janas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apjanas/)
 * (@apjanas)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description-2/)
 * There is some ambiguity in the IPTC definitions about caption vs. description.
   WordPress provides both fields in the Media Library, but Apple’s Photo and Adobe’s
   Photoshop Elements only allow the Description to be updated. My suggestion therefore
   is to allow a fall-back to using the Description when no Caption is available.
   This could be achieved by adding the following line after line 128 in fsm-custom-
   featured-image-caption.php
 * if ( empty($caption) ) {$caption=$attachment->post_content;} //get caption from
   description
 * Just a suggestion, you may not want to use it but I think it would help some 
   users.
 * Great plugin anyway, I would make a donation but the donation link seems to be
   broken.

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 *  Plugin Author [Fesomia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fesomia/)
 * (@fesomia)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description-2/#post-10362099)
 * Thanks for the suggestion.
    While it is perfectly valid, unfortunately adding
   it right now could create some issues for users of the plugin that have images
   with description and an empty caption, as with the update all those images would
   suddenly (and without warning) show text that wasn’t appearing before and may
   not be intended to show up as a caption.
 * However, we plan to add an option in a future version of the plugin that will
   allow you to select the text to use between the four fields that the media library
   can store for each image (Title, caption, alt text and description), and also
   the hability to select a default fallback in the global options.
 * Also thanks for reporting about the broken donation link, we’ll look into that.
 *  Thread Starter [Sandy Janas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apjanas/)
 * (@apjanas)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description-2/#post-10385738)
 * Yes you are right, it needs to be an option, and if you can configure a default
   fallback that will be perfect.
    Thanks again for a great plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [Fesomia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fesomia/)
 * (@fesomia)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description-2/#post-10385860)
 * You’re welcome, and keep an eye on the next updates 🙂

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 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description-2/#post-10385860)
 * Status: resolved