Adding captions underneath featured images on posts

This is cool, but if I don’t put anything in the image caption field, it automatically pulls from the post title. Is there a way to modify this so, if the client doesn’t add a cation to the image, there’s no caption?

Thanks!

I’m trying to add image captions underneath the large featured image in single post pages. I can’t send you directly to this url, because we have a coming soon page blocking the site, but here’s a screen shot — https://www.evernote.com/shard/s320/sh/0f555ea6-3347-476e-8e6b-60d7dd6e4dc0/c85e8bc412d3026bee39c8363930e088 — in this example, I have nothing entered in the Caption field for the image, so it’s apparently just pulling in the post title by default. My client wants to be able to add captions to their featured images, if they have a caption, but they don’t want to just duplicate the post title there, if there’s no caption — if there’s no caption, they would like there to be no caption showing under the image. Make sense?

Thanks and let me know if you have any other questions.

Sure thing:

Remove the custom post title? Sorry, I don’t understand that one — could you elaborate on that, please?

Thanks

Thanks, but that doesn’t seem to change anything — if there’s nothing entered in the image/media caption field, it still shows the post title as the image caption, on the front end. Got anything else for me? :)

Yeah, this client needs to clear IPs for me to work on the site — can you give me an IP I can ask them to clear for you? Thanks!

I’m trying to do the same and tried all three options in the php and there is still no caption underneath the featured image. I’m using the elegant theme with fullwidth featured images on single posts. Thanks!

Hello, Ismael

Thanks, but it’s still not working. Yes, I added in a caption, description, title and alt tag in the media library to the featured image. At around line 162 in the latest loop-index.php I’ve modified this in the parent theme – do I perhaps need to create a new functions.php for the child?

        if ( !in_array( $blog_style, array('bloglist-simple', 'bloglist-compact', 'bloglist-excerpt') ) ) {
            //echo preview image
            if (strpos($blog_global_style, 'elegant-blog') === false) {
                if (strpos($blog_style, 'big') !== false) {
                    if ($slider) $slider = '<a href="' . $link . '" title="' . $featured_img_desc . '">' . $slider . '</a>';
                    if ($slider) echo '<div class="big-preview ' . $blog_style . '">' . $slider . '</div>';
					if ($featured_img_desc) echo '<span>'.$featured_img_desc.'</span>'; 
                }

                if (!empty($before_content))
                    echo '<div class="big-preview ' . $blog_style . '">' . $before_content . '</div>';
            }
        }

I cut the code from the first instance and added it to the second, as advised. I now see the text but I’m trying to target it and it’s impossible to see what element it is to style it. Could you please let me know how to style it? Thanks, again :)

Ok, that worked but I still have an issue, please.

When I turn on background of course it’s targeting just the background of the text, so not the element that is holding it. I’d like to be able to adjust either the padding or margins where the text sits – I’ve tried every possible combination and it’s still not moving, using span and p after and before the class, with and without spaces.

I made a div and gave it an id of fi-descr and placed it outside of the span class but that made the styling for the loop-index.php stop working.

What I need to do is be able to adjust the vertical spacing, top and bottom.

Thanks, again :)

That worked perfectly! Thank you, Ismael :) You can close the post.