Title: Insert image’s “description” into “image.php” template
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Insert image’s “description” into “image.php” template

 *  Resolved [think2wice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/think2wice/)
 * (@think2wice)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-images-description-into-imagephp-template/)
 * I know the template tag to insert an image’s caption into the image’s attachment
   template (image.php), but how do you insert text from the description field into
   the template?

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-images-description-into-imagephp-template/#post-931086)
 * The description can be shown by using the_content(), just like the caption can
   be shown by using the_excerpt().
 * An attachment is just a special form of post. So the image.php should be like
   every other post template, and have a Loop and everything. The normal Loop functions
   then show what you need.
 *  Thread Starter [think2wice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/think2wice/)
 * (@think2wice)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-images-description-into-imagephp-template/#post-931144)
 * Thanks!

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## Tags

 * [image description](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image-description/)
 * [image.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [think2wice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/think2wice/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-images-description-into-imagephp-template/#post-931144)
 * Status: resolved

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