[Resolved] Dynamic featured image caption

[Jayanta]

Hi,
I was trying to create a Block element to define “content template” for all posts. In my previous design, the display is in this hierarchy: Headline>Post meta (author + date)>Featured Image>Featured image caption>post body.
While I am able to create the new Block element with dynamic headline, dynamic post meta, dynamic featured image and the dynamic post body, I am unable to insert the Featured Image caption.
I tried using Dynamic headline with Dynamic Text Type set to Post Meta and Meta Field Name as featured_caption. However, this did not yield any result as I don’t use any custom fields to insert the caption. I use the default image-caption option when uploading.
Please help.

[Ying]

Hi there,

Try this solution:

1. Add this PHP code to your site to create a shortcode [featured_img_caption]:

add_shortcode( 'featured_img_caption', function() {
    ob_start();

	echo '<div>'. get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_excerpt. '</div>';

    return ob_get_clean();
} );

Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

2. In your content template, add a shortcode block with this shortcode: [featured_img_caption] anywhere you want.

If you want to style the text, it’s better wrapper the shortcode block with a GB container block, then you can set the style for the GB contianer.

[Jayanta]

Thnk you so much Ying. This worked perfectly.

[Ying]

You are welcome 🙂

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