Custom Field for Caption

hi Josh,

I manage this with ACF, but still, is this the best way?
And is it possible to simply add the export from my ACF in the slider file?

I always try to limit the amount of plugins…

This is my ACF export:

if( function_exists('acf_add_local_field_group') ):

acf_add_local_field_group(array (
	'key' => 'group_574f304f73fe1',
	'title' => 'Slide Description',
	'fields' => array (
		array (
			'key' => 'field_574f30709b663',
			'label' => 'slide description',
			'name' => 'slide_description',
			'type' => 'textarea',
			'instructions' => '',
			'required' => 0,
			'conditional_logic' => 0,
			'wrapper' => array (
				'width' => '',
				'class' => '',
				'id' => '',
			),
			'default_value' => '',
			'placeholder' => '',
			'maxlength' => 50,
			'rows' => 3,
			'new_lines' => 'wpautop',
			'readonly' => 0,
			'disabled' => 0,
		),
	),
	'location' => array (
		array (
			array (
				'param' => 'post_type',
				'operator' => '==',
				'value' => 'slide',
			),
		),
	),
	'menu_order' => 0,
	'position' => 'normal',
	'style' => 'default',
	'label_placement' => 'top',
	'instruction_placement' => 'label',
	'hide_on_screen' => array (
		0 => 'permalink',
		1 => 'the_content',
		2 => 'excerpt',
		3 => 'custom_fields',
		4 => 'discussion',
		5 => 'comments',
		6 => 'revisions',
		7 => 'slug',
		8 => 'author',
		9 => 'format',
		10 => 'page_attributes',
		11 => 'categories',
		12 => 'tags',
		13 => 'send-trackbacks',
	),
	'active' => 1,
	'description' => '',
));

endif;

This looks like a good setup to me. I often use ACF for this when I am also using ACF to add others fields to the site.

When I’m not using ACF for anything else on a site I simplify it a bit though. For very basic captions I will use just the slide post title, like in the custom caption skin. If I need a headline and description for the captions, I will use the slide title for the headline, and add slide excerpts for the caption description.