What do you use caption for in WordPress?
Captions are brief text descriptions that you can add to your images. They are typically used to provide additional details about an image. WordPress comes with the built-in capability to easily add a caption and other metadata including title and alternative text for each image.
How can I add a caption to a picture?
You can add a caption by clicking on that. If you select pre-added images from the library, you can add a caption to your pictures from the image metadata section on the right. If the photos already have a caption, then you don’t need to add it again.
Is there a free plugin for image caption?
With that being said, there is a popular free plugin called Image Caption Hover that lets you display image captions via 200+ different CSS3 hover effects. This plugin does not allow you to change the static display of your image captions.
How do you add an image to a WordPress post?
On the post edit screen, click the ‘Add Block’ icon and select the ‘Image’ block. Upon clicking on it, the Image block will be added to your post area. You can now click on the upload button to select and upload an image from your computer to WordPress.
Do you need alt text for image caption?
It is worth noting that WordPress image captions can contain HTML including links. The alt attribute or “Alt text” is mandatory for images on the web but is often ignored because it seems unnecessary. This is unfortunate because the alt attribute is both important and powerful.
Is the caption tied to the attachment post?
Caption. The caption is not tied to the attachment post but to where you choose to place the image in a post. That means if you use the same image in several different posts or several different places within a post you can have individual captions for each.
How to change the description of an image in WordPress?
Once you’ve added an image to a post and you want to change or add to the Description you have to open the editor for the image Attachment Post. You can do that by going to Media in admin and finding the image or by navigating to the image on the front-end of your site and clicking Edit Media in the WordPress Toolbar.
How does the description field work in WordPress?
The Description field is probably the best kept secret of images in WordPress. If you add text to the description field that text will be stored as post content for the attachment post. That means if someone lands on the attachment post page for the image they will see the long description (provided the current theme supports it).