Dynamic Editing of Slide Caption

Hi @charliemcf

Are you familiar with how hooks for in WP? You can hook into the image data before it’s presented. “metaslider_image_slide_attributes” is the one you would want to use.

add_filter('metaslider_image_slide_attributes', function($slide, $slideshow_id) {
  $slide['caption'] = special_function($slide['caption']);
  return $slide;
}, 10, 2);

Let me know if that helps

Hi @kbat82,

Thanks for the excellent advice, very helpful. I understand the concept of hooks but haven’t used them before, good time to give it a go!

Cheers, Clive

Hi @charliemcf,

Let me know how it works out. I’ll mark this as resolved but feel free to comment again if you run into any issues.

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Hi @kbat82,

All good, many thanks. In the remote chance that this may help someone else, here’s the complete code:

// Assuming caption in the form of 'Name - Title', this will italicise the title
function split_caption($slidecaption) {
$splitcaption = explode ("-", $slidecaption);
$newcaption = $splitcaption[0] . "- <span style=\"font-style: italic\">" . $splitcaption[1] . "</span>";
	return $newcaption;
}

add_filter('metaslider_image_slide_attributes', function($slide, $slideshow_id) {
  $slide['caption'] = split_caption($slide['caption']);
  return $slide;
}, 10, 2);

I just added this to the bottom of the child theme’s functions.php file.