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FoA Featured Image – Show Caption is a simple WordPress plugin that extends the core Featured Image block with caption functionality. When enabled, it displays the image caption (or title if no caption exists) below the featured image.
Key Features:
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<li>Adds a “Show Caption” checkbox setting to the Featured Image block</li>
<li>Displays the image caption (or title if no caption) below the featured image</li>
<li>Works with the Gutenberg block editor and templates</li>
<li>Clean, minimal styling that works with most themes</li>
<li>Right-aligned caption with light grey color</li>
</ul>
How it Works:
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<li>The plugin extends the core Featured Image block with additional settings</li>
<li>When “Show Caption” is enabled, it checks for a caption on the featured image</li>
<li>If no caption exists, it falls back to using the image title</li>
<li>The caption is displayed in a <code><div class="featured-image-caption"></code> element</li>
<li>Works with both regular posts/pages and WordPress templates</li>
</ul>
Styling:
The plugin includes default CSS styling for the caption: 
* Text aligned to the right 
* Light grey color (#999) 
* Italic font style 
* Small font size
You can easily customize the appearance by targeting the <code>.featured-image-caption</code> class in your theme’s CSS. The plugin uses standard CSS specificity, so your theme styles will override the defaults.

FoA Featured Image – Show Caption

Adds caption functionality to Featured Image blocks with a simple checkbox setting.

Zack Katz

<blockquote>WordPress 3.4 Supports HTML in Captions! 
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>
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.
With this plugin, you can also use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcodes</a> in captions.
<h4>How to use</h4>
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>.
You can also specify <code>target</code>, <code>title</code>, and <code>rel</code> attributes: <code>{link url="http://www.example.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="I never could do this before!"}Anchor text here{/link}</code>
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<h4>You may also be interested in:</h4>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-tags/" rel="ugc">Rich Text Tags</a> – Enable rich text editing of tags, categories, and taxonomies. Add value to your tag & category pages and improve your website’ SEO.
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