Title: External Captioning
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# External Captioning

 *  [cdkrall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdkrall/)
 * (@cdkrall)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-captioning/)
 * When I post I would like to put some text in between NGG thumbs, which are set
   large enough to view without expanding. This allows me to have a photo narrative
   without the expansion working, in case a user can’t access the expanded photo.
 * When I post images individually like that, I lose the navigation between images
   in a post, the only way to have that is to post the thumbs as a gallery and then
   they can navigate, but they have to read first and view images later, or vice-
   versa, no commingling.
 * In my NGG there is a gallery called “singlepics”, which is just for posts with
   a single image or separated images. Otherwise I make a new gallery for each post
   or page so that I can have the navigation.
 * Would it be possible to add functionality whereby “strings” could be run so that
   I could do this…
 * text block
 * image
 * text block
 * image
    image
 * text block
 * image
 * …and have navigation between the images once one is expanded?
 * This would be useful for technical articles, where unremitting blocks of text
   could be broken up by images, but the images could also be navigated separately
   so that a series of steps could be repeated and gone back through for understanding.
 * One thought is that one could use this as a bulk feature, check boxes on photos
   to string, invoke string feature from bulk menu, then add those photos to to 
   the post with a string qualifier. Or perhaps just adding a string qualifier when
   posting and having the program handle within that post or page.
 * If stringing were possible, it would eliminate having to make separate galleries
   for each post, one could keep all photos in one gallery if one wanted.
 * Please excuse likely misuse of programming terms, I am illiterate in those, just
   using words that make sense to me.
 * Thank you for continuing to support NGG.
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-captioning/)
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