[Support request] Image Caption not displayed

[Philipp]

When I am going to set post thumbnail meta in media manager for a blog entry as shown here, it will not be displayed on the frontend. This is different for images which I embed directly in the content as can be seen here (grey small font below images). Am I doing something wrong or is it possible to update the inc/template-tags.php file of my child theme?

[Leo]

Hi there,

Unfortunately the default WordPress Featured Image only grabs an image – no caption.

You could try this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-caption/

[Philipp]

Hi Leo

Thank you for your feedback with suggestion.

Unfortunately, it seems this plugin is not working out of the box with GeneratePress. There is a checkbox “Automatically add the caption to the featured image” which I enabled. However, caption does not appear. I am going to try the additional provided short code option. Will let you know if it works.

Thanks,
Philipp

[Tom]

This topic might be helpful: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/caption-for-post-thumbnails/

[Christine]

I am unable to view captions as well. Help?

[Tom]

Captions for featured images? Or within your content?

[Christine]

Hey, captions for featured images. What do you mean within my content? I would like a caption to appear below photos.

Thank you!

[Leo]

Can you link us to the page in question?

Feel free to start a new topic so you can use the private URL field as well 🙂

[Christine]

I am still unable to see image captions.

[Christine]

I will start a new thread.

[Leo]

Thanks!

[Author]

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