hainesy82

We solved this on https://www.thegambiablog.co.uk by using a small amount of jquery code.

Basically in our captions we can add links like so:

This is a caption text {link:https://www.google.co.uk/}that links to google{/link} - great!

Then I put the following code in footer.php

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery().ready(function() {
        jQuery("p.wp-caption-text").each(function(n) {
            this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(new RegExp("{link:([^}]*)}([^{]*){/link}"), "<a href=\"$1\">$2</a>");
        });
    });
</script>