Title: [Plugin: Featured Image Widget] Display Description / Caption
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Featured Image Widget] Display Description / Caption

 *  [myrko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrko/)
 * (@myrko)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-featured-image-widget-display-description-caption/)
 * Could you add a small feature where you could output the caption and / or description
   for that image below the image (best with styles around that so you can style
   the text as you like)?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-image-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-image-widget/)

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 *  [immanence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/immanence/)
 * (@immanence)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-featured-image-widget-display-description-caption/#post-3118870)
 * Have you found a way to do this? I’d also like to do the same.
 *  Thread Starter [myrko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrko/)
 * (@myrko)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-featured-image-widget-display-description-caption/#post-3118871)
 * No unfortunately not. If you find anything, let me know!
 *  [mpmchugh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpmchugh/)
 * (@mpmchugh)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-featured-image-widget-display-description-caption/#post-3118905)
 * I’ve used this function code from [this thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-caption-with-the_post_thumbnail?replies=12):
 *     ```
       // Get Featured Image Caption
       function the_post_thumbnail_caption() {
         global $post;
   
         $thumbnail_id    = get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID);
         $thumbnail_image = get_posts(array('p' => $thumbnail_id, 'post_type' => 'attachment'));
   
         if ($thumbnail_image && isset($thumbnail_image[0])) {
           echo '<p class="caption">'.$thumbnail_image[0]->post_excerpt.'</p>';
         }
       }
       ```
   
 * Usage:
 * `<? echo the_post_thumbnail_caption(); ?>`
 * Then for sidebar placement I just use the echo in a Text Widget below The Featured
   Image Widget using [PHP Text Widget](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/php-text-widget)
   which let’s it execute php code.
 * I’t s a work-around, but it works pretty well. 🙂
 * -mpm

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 * Last reply from: [mpmchugh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpmchugh/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-featured-image-widget-display-description-caption/#post-3118905)
 * Status: not resolved