Image Caption Coding

  • I am overall pleased with WP2.6 but have a nagging issue with image captioning.

    How the hell do you make it work?

    When I use the uploader, position the image, usually left, the code produced is this

    [caption id="attachment_1568" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Truck radiation monitor"]<a href="https://mexicotrucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/truckradiationportalmonitor.jpg"><img src="https://mexicotrucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/truckradiationportalmonitor.jpg" alt="Truck radiation monitor" title="truckradiationportalmonitor" width="300" height="282" class="size-medium wp-image-1568" /></a>[/caption]

    The [caption] is the part that is out of place and after the post is published, that shows as port of the text of the post.

    My temporary solution has been to manually delete the portions in bold and insert the alignment at the end.

    Is there a correction for this or what? Would appreciate a solution if there is one.

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  • I wish I could see which sections you deleted (the bold text doesn’t show up on my end) because I’m having the same problem and no amount of tweaking will fix it. I’ve added the caption code to my theme style.css and all the other suggested fixes and nothing. Driving me crazy. If you find your way out of this caption hell, I’d love to hear how you did it.

    I lose the formatting of the image as well and it just sits to the left of the page with text that should float around it just sitting underneath so it is not being styled at all.

    I think, in my case, it seemed to occur after an uploaded image was manually deleted via the html editor for a particlaur post and once that image has gone subsequent uploaded images (in any post) cannot access the CSS style.

    I would like to understand how the default CSS style is applied. Is it a sequencing problem caused by the way the image was manually deleted from inside the post ?

    How is the number generated (as above “attachment_1568”) and where is the code that generates it ?

    Why won’t it default to the style I have set in my theme’s CSS when I manually change the code to delete all reference to the automatically generated style ?

    And, most frustratingly, whilst I am in the editor (visual mode now) the image and caption are formatted perfectly. Once I publish or save though, the formatting is lost when the post is displayed on my site.

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