Title: “Caption” vs. “Description”
Last modified: September 18, 2017

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# “Caption” vs. “Description”

 *  [rogerlos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerlos/)
 * (@rogerlos)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description/)
 * This is a really nice plugin, thanks for taking the time to write and maintain
   it.
 * Using native WP galleries, I cannot get photonic to use the “description” field
   vs. the “caption” field (as seen in the WP media editor). If the “caption” is
   empty but the “description” is not, photonic will not display any content.
 * I believe this is because at line 127 of `Photonic_Native_Processor` you always
   use the caption:
 * `$photo_object['description'] = esc_attr($wp_details['caption']);`
 * If this is expected, perhaps the plugin can use the WordPress labels as seen 
   in the media item library, where ‘caption’ is equivalent to the `post_excerpt`
   field and ‘description’ is equivalent to the `post_content`? (So the shortcode`
   caption` options might be “title-caption” or “caption”, etc?)
 * This could also potentially be solved by calling `get_the_excerpt` using the 
   attachment ID, as WP would (in theory) look at the `post_caption` field first
   and if nothing was there automatically generate an excerpt from the `post_content`
   field.

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 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description/#post-9519620)
 * This is intended behaviour for the plugin.
 * Photonic looks at two things – the title and the caption. In this matter the 
   behavior is consistent with WP. _Without Photonic_, when you insert a photo using
   the “Add Media” button, if you put in a title, that is what shows up when you
   hover over a picture, and if you put in a caption, that shows up below the photo.
   The description that you put in is never shown by WP. In line with this, Photonic
   only considers the title and the caption, and not the description, and there 
   is no intention of changing this behaviour, since it has been this way since 
   the very early versions.
 * I can consider adding a filter to the generated text roughly around the line 
   of code that you pointed out, but I cannot change the existing functionality.

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 * Last reply from: [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-vs-description/#post-9519620)
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