Title: Image caption plugin help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Image caption plugin help

 *  [mikeboy3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeboy3/)
 * (@mikeboy3)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/)
 * Greetings, I am using the “The Morning After” wp magazine theme, and it has a
   very nice feature, it allows for images to be added in a box with a caption text.
   however, there is no automatic way of doing this procedure, and I must add the
   code manually, code which is automatically changed by WordPress when I switch
   back to the visual editor.
 * I would need a way to add a button to the visual editor that will allow me to
   select from 3 styles, “captionleft”/”captionright”/”captionfull”, input an image
   url, followed by the caption text, and it would code it in the following way 
   at the top of the post.
 * `<div class="captionleft"><img src="path/to/image.jpg" alt="alt text" /><p>Caption
   goes here</p></div>`
 * I would really appreciate any help you can give me.

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635216)
 * Disable the visual editor all together. In your Dashboard click the My profile
   link in the top right and then uncheck the box that says use visual editor.
 *  Thread Starter [mikeboy3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeboy3/)
 * (@mikeboy3)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635277)
 * yes, but then I could not use the visual editor at all, and I like it :p
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635278)
 * You can’t have both. You either know what you are doing and use code or no code,
   just the wysiwyg monster.
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635279)
 * Have a look at this.
 * [http://roel.meurders.nl/wordpress-plugins/wp-addquicktag-plugin-for-adding-quicktags/](http://roel.meurders.nl/wordpress-plugins/wp-addquicktag-plugin-for-adding-quicktags/)
 *  Thread Starter [mikeboy3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeboy3/)
 * (@mikeboy3)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635280)
 * arrrgh, well, I guess the easiest solution would be to edit everything in the
   visual editor, and then just change to code view and add this code by hand…
    
   How come the wysiwyg editor changes everything? If there an alternative to it?
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635281)
 * There is quite a few different ones. Look here.
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/formatting](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/formatting)
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635282)
 * _the easiest solution would be to edit everything in the visual editor, and then
   just change to code view and add this code by hand…_
 * False, unfortunately.
    Even if you switch between Visual and Code – it means 
   the wysiwyg gizmo is turned ON, so it will always screw up your handmade code!
 *  Thread Starter [mikeboy3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeboy3/)
 * (@mikeboy3)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635283)
 * thanks jeremyclark13, the plugin is really useful, I’ll give it a try!
 *  [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/)
 * (@ivovic)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635284)
 * the visual editor suffers from other problems too, like removing empty alt attributes,
   for one.
 * if you REALLY want to keep using the visual editor, then I suggest adding your
   image captions by JavaScript, there are plenty of DOM Captioning scripts you 
   can google for.
 * I’m doing something similar myself, by running a script on the page to extract
   the alt attribute from images and use them as captions.
 * … that way I don’t have to add extra markup/divs/garbage to my posts which invariably
   show up in the wrong spot in RSS feeds.
 *  [contentspring](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contentspring/)
 * (@contentspring)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-plugin-help/#post-635658)
 * Try the Image Caption Easy plugin, it does what you’re after: [http://imagecaptioneasy.contentspring.com/](http://imagecaptioneasy.contentspring.com/).

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