Featured Image Caption in Post Template

Resolved hebhansen
(@hebhansen)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi TT4

It happens I am obliged to credit the featured image on my site. I cannot find anyway to add Caption to the featured image in single post template. I have checked Image block, Featured Image Block and also Cover Block. Do you have any ideas to fix this? I prefer a snippet rather than a plugin, but priority 1 is ofcourse a setting inside Editor, that I may have missed.

Thx

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Mary Hubbard
(@4thhubbard)

1 year, 6 months ago
Hi! This is not built inside the Editor today. I don’t see a straightforward way to do that, but I see this plugin works perfectly: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/featured-image-caption/

I understand your preference is a snippet, I was able to find this in forums but was unable to test this;
1. Locate the functions.php file of your active child theme (or create a child theme if you’re using the main TT4 theme to prevent updates from overwriting your changes).
2. Add the following code:
```
   function add_featured_image_caption() {
       if (is_single() && has_post_thumbnail()) {
           global $post;
           $thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID);
           $caption = wp_get_attachment_caption($thumbnail_id);

           if ($caption) {
               echo '<div class="featured-image-caption">' . esc_html($caption) . '</div>';
           }
       }
   }
   add_action('wp_after_header', 'add_featured_image_caption');
```
1. Style the caption if needed by adding CSS to your customizer or child theme’s style.css file:
```
   .featured-image-caption {
       font-style: italic;
       text-align: center;
       margin-top: 5px;
       color: #666;
   }
```
This code snippet checks if the current post is a single post with a featured image, retrieves the caption, and displays it right below the image if a caption exists.
- This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Mary Hubbard.
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Thread Starter hebhansen
(@hebhansen)

1 year, 6 months ago

Hi @4thhubbard

Thank you so much for your effort. I just ran a test on snippet above and it appears no caption is showing. I believe this is legacy or maybe because I am using cover block in my template to show the featured image.

Feedback for developers:

Image block can display Caption. Image block can not show featured image. Hence, it is not usable in templates to show featured together with a caption of credits.

Featured image block does exactly that. It cannot show caption, hence, in templates the featured image is not credited. At times that is a requirement to be allowed to use a given frame.

Cover block no caption either. How about one size fits all? for usability in templates.

Plugin:

Comes across as somewhat legacy oriented. I might give it a try, but I am reaching plus 70 plugins, so I am making all efforts to rewind that

Thx

Hari Shanker R
(@harishanker)

1 year, 6 months ago

@hebhansen

Featured image block does exactly that. It cannot show caption, hence, in templates the featured image is not credited. At times that is a requirement to be allowed to use a given frame.
Cover block no caption either. How about one size fits all? for usability in templates.

Thank you so much for this excellent feedback. I personally love these ideas, and I think it would be incredibly beneficial to point this towards our developers so that they can consider including these features in WordPress. If you have the time, may I gently ask you to propose a feature request on this to the Gutenberg team? It would be incredibly beneficial! And your request might even pave the way to bringing this feature into Core WordPress even.

I hope the issue stands resolved. All the best!