Christiaan Conover

<p>Featured Image Caption makes it simple to show a caption with the featured image of a post or page. It works seamlessly with most themes, with no coding required. If you like to mess about in the code, it supports that too.</p>


Featured Image Caption

Easily add and display a caption for the featured image of a post.

Zack Katz

<blockquote><p><strong>WordPress 3.4 Supports HTML in Captions!</strong><br />
Basic HTML support has been added to the caption field in the image uploader. This allows you to add links – great for photo credits or licensing details – and basic formatting such as bold and italicized text.
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<h3>For WordPress 3.3.2 and earlier…finally you can add links to your image captions.</h3>
<p>Adding links to captions is the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/view/top-rated" rel="nofollow ugc">9th most popular request</a> in the WordPress Ideas forum.</p>
<p>With this plugin, you can also <strong>use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcodes</a> in captions</strong>.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>Inside the <code>caption</code> input, you can now add a link by using the following format: <code>{a href="http://www.example.com"}Anchor text here{/a}</code>, or alternatively you could use <code>{link url="http://www.example.com"}Anchor text here{/link}</code>.</p>
<p><strong>You can also specify <code>target</code>, <code>title</code>, and <code>rel</code> attributes:</strong> <code>{link url="http://www.example.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="I never could do this before!"}Anchor text here{/link}</code></p>
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<h4>You may also be interested in:</h4>
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Links in Captions

Easily add links to image captions in the WordPress editor.

Featured Image Caption vs Links in Captions