Title: Feature Request: Caption for Embeds
Last modified: January 10, 2018

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# Feature Request: Caption for Embeds

 *  [remino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remino/)
 * (@remino)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-caption-for-embeds/)
 * Toying with captions on some drafts in my WordPress blogs, I noticed one thing:
   I can only add captions to images, not galleries, or embeds (including videos).
   The basic support for the [caption] shortcode is only for single images.
 * I believe it’d be a good idea accessibility-wise (and for semantics?) to extend
   img_caption_shortcode() (either itself or through plugins supporting the img_caption_shortcode)
   to allow captions to be added to other sorts of media. For example, a caption
   could description the content of a gallery or slideshow in general when multiple
   images are meant to describe something together rather than one by one. Also,
   captions on embedded video can add context to the reason why that media was included
   in relation to the rest of the post.
 * In semantics, HTML5 allows <figure> to include any sort of media; not just images.
   The same goes for Facebook Instant Articles and AMP, if you’re using that sort
   of things to publish your content.
 * For this, I suppose, shortcodes within the caption shortcode would have to be
   supported.
 * At the moment, I think I’ll have to write a custom plugin to do that job.

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 *  Thread Starter [remino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remino/)
 * (@remino)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-caption-for-embeds/#post-9851753)
 * Well, digging into the code, I found that if I specify the width in the caption
   shortcode, I can add whatever I want in the content of the shortcode. The content
   will also be parsed by do_shortcode in that case, hence allowing me to add embeds.
 * My bad. Maybe I missed that part in the docs.
 *  [eventeca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eventeca/)
 * (@eventeca)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-caption-for-embeds/#post-9913008)
 * It’s good too read your website again i see some interesting updates here..
 * [Event Tech](http://eventeca.com/)

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 * Last reply from: [eventeca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eventeca/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-caption-for-embeds/#post-9913008)
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