Caption vs. Description

  • Resolved Sandy Janas

    (@apjanas)


    6 years, 9 months ago

    There is some ambiguity in the IPTC definitions about caption vs. description. WordPress provides both fields in the Media Library, but Apple’s Photo and Adobe’s Photoshop Elements only allow the Description to be updated. My suggestion therefore is to allow a fall-back to using the Description when no Caption is available. This could be achieved by adding the following line after line 128 in fsm-custom-featured-image-caption.php

    if ( empty($caption) ) {$caption=$attachment->post_content;} //get caption from description

    Just a suggestion, you may not want to use it but I think it would help some users.

    Great plugin anyway, I would make a donation but the donation link seems to be broken.

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  • Plugin Author fesomia

    (@fesomia)

    Thanks for the suggestion.
    While it is perfectly valid, unfortunately adding it right now could create some issues for users of the plugin that have images with description and an empty caption, as with the update all those images would suddenly (and without warning) show text that wasn’t appearing before and may not be intended to show up as a caption.

    However, we plan to add an option in a future version of the plugin that will allow you to select the text to use between the four fields that the media library can store for each image (Title, caption, alt text and description), and also the hability to select a default fallback in the global options.

    Also thanks for reporting about the broken donation link, we’ll look into that.

    Thread Starter Sandy Janas

    (@apjanas)

    Yes you are right, it needs to be an option, and if you can configure a default fallback that will be perfect.
    Thanks again for a great plugin.

    Plugin Author fesomia

    (@fesomia)

    You’re welcome, and keep an eye on the next updates ??

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