Please help me out (again). I need to add subtle image descriptions to style 4 of post templates to avoid the danger of getting sued. Should be a common problem and hence be something you could consider adding into the one of the next theme updates.
WordPress removed use of the title tag on image placement back in v 3.5. So, they now use the caption element, except for the attachment view page. Their stupid thinking was having somebody mouse over an image and see “image 123″ wasn’t very useful. Most folks complained and said it should just be included as blank element, but they disagreed.
This isn’t a theme issue; since images are placed into the post via WordPress normal use.
Obviously when placing images manually, you can add the title=”my description” here in the image element in the post. However for “featured” images, the placement doesn’t allow you to manually edit that on the page.
So, WordPress expects a caption to do that work, and then populates the title=”” tag for the IMG tag. So, for featured images, you might *try* to use caption field, as that does populate the title tag per WordPress Codex docs (unless that changed again).
There is actually a plugin which adds this functionality back, and one could probably add this to the functions.php file by looking at plugin code (which we will be doing here, as this same subject came up on our political news site in California where hovering on photo doesn’t show title tag with senator name, etc.).
Thanks Chris.
It doesnt really matter to me which image info it would show as long i can edit a copyright information in it. So caption for the featured image would be perfectly alright for me.
Until recently i used an older Newspaper version with a page template that did that job.
Cool. So using the caption section of each image in the media manager should work for you, for the title=”” field in each IMG tag when placed on the post, and would show on hover.
If you want to use the title field in the media manager, you’d need to use the plugin I mention, or similar.
This is a WordPress thing and unrelated to the theme 🙂
Hi,
The caption for that post style not displayed because the featured image is not loaded default via WordPress, is taken via jQuery. Also you can use subtitle for post if is ok for you http://screencast.com/t/rC4Gd9SG http://screencast.com/t/NZOvxpTT
Thanks!
Thats a good idea at least for problematic external images.
Thank you Marius.
