Ever wonder how some sites add small texts below their images? Well that’s a caption. It comes in handy if you want to provide additional details about your image. WordPress comes with a built-in functionality to add captions to your photos. In this article, we will cover how to add caption to images in WordPress.
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First thing you need to do is to upload an image. You can add images to WordPress by clicking on the Add Media button while writing a post/page. Once you have uploaded an image, you will see a form where you can provide the image information such as title, caption, alternate text, and description for your image.
The title and description boxes are not visible to your users. However, caption will appear with the image when you insert it into your post. Depending on how your theme handles captions, you will see something like this:
You can also add caption to images when creating an image gallery in WordPress. Once you have uploaded your photos, you can enter captions directly below an image, like this:
The captions will appear with your gallery images. The appearance of captions may vary depending on how your theme styling. This is how gallery captions appear in the default Twenty Fourteen theme:
Adding Captions to Multiple Images in Multiple Posts
If you post a lot of photographs on your site, then perhaps you would like to revisit your photos and add captions to photos in different posts. You don’t need to open each post in the post editor just to add captions to images. You can add captions by editing an image directly.
To do that, go to Media » Library. There you will see all your photos and images. Take your mouse over to an image you want to edit, and you will notice that a few links would appear below it. You need to click on Edit Image link.
This will open image in the WordPress image editor screen. You can add caption to your image here. You can also crop, rotate, and resize your images from edit image screen.
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Hi there,
I’m wondering if you know how to add a caption to an image on the WordPress app?
Thanks!
I’m not having a problem coming up with captions, but I am having major issues with the font and color of the words in the captions. How do I edit this?
Hey Isaac,
You can style captions by adding custom CSS to your theme. Here is some example code that you can use as an starting point.
.wp-caption { font-size:16px; color: #40404; }I am using Genesis theme and outreach-pro child-theme. I enter captions for images and they display in the editing mode view. When I go to my actual site, the caption is missing. I need to add captions for some, but not all, images. Please help.
Hi Cecile,
Please try your theme’s support forums. Alternately, you can also use a WordPress gallery plugin to achieve this.
How do I get my site to show the captions after they are added? I have added the captions to the pictures under media but they don’t show when I look at the site. They only show when I hover over the pictures.
Hi,
I want to embed some text into a photo on my website. Please advise how to do this.
Thanks,
Robert Fisch
By speaking slower and more clearly at might help the beginners a little bit more. You run over the words, so to speak ” rattle off”!!
Not a good idea for them who just start wordpress!
Thank you
Thanks for this article and all your other helpful articles.
Can you recommend any tips to add this type of info for each picture on my site that helps SEO?
Rich
Really helpful for my WordPress site thanks you for sharing a such a good article about image captions
You go much too fast. Your videos are almost no help at all because you rush through everything. You have to remember that the people you’re trying to reach are beginners. We don’t know what we’re doing. That’s why we’re relying on you.
We will try to work on that. Thanks for your feedback.
Hi, can you add an additions one stating how to edit multiple images at once? People like myself who have a photography blog, will want to add keywords and titles to multiple images in one go
That’s a good idea, we will try to cover this in a future article.
How can we change the fonts, colour, style of the captions?
can you please help !
Helpful. Thank you!
Is there a character limit for captions?
Very helpful video. Short and to the point. Thanks.
Hello I have added captions to photo files on my computer. Is it possible to upload the photos including the captions to a WordPress blog, or do I need to copy and paste the captions from the metadata of the photos into WordPress?
Hi – I have a good background picture on my homepage – bkgd position 70px 0px, bkgd size cover. But I can’t seem to get the same on my other pages as it asks for scale or pixels – I’ve tried resizing on paint but no matter what to it appears too big. – that’s my 1st problem.
2. using 2014 theme – child – where do I find the code for the pages ? I’ve looked in 2014 parent theme style.css but can’t make out if the code in there belongs to the parent or child — I’ve checked the color codes and they seem to belong to the parent theme – so where will I find the code for my pages – I am tearing my hair out , I’ve been at this for months and no one can give me an answer! – I’m learning php, html, java, just to find them to no avail.
3. I have my title in my homepage (which is my url – But I wish to change the last word to suit all my other pages – any chance you have a code for this and where would I add it.
Thanks again
Thanks for this.
Wondering whether it’s possible to have the caption appear with the photos when they’re clicked on and open in the lightbox.
That way, when people continue scrolling through the photos, the captions continue to appear.
Cheers.
Please check out our guide on how to create responsive image galleries in WordPress with Envira
Great. Clear direction. Immediately began ‘captioning’ my many photos on my blogs.
Question: Sometimes when I add a caption to a photo in some themes, it will make it appear a little wonky. A border box will appear off-center. What should I look for in the CSS to fix this?
You can use css by modifying or overriding these CSS classes in your theme:
.wp-caption
.wp-caption-text
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Thanks, very useful as I work on my first blog.
Keep up the good work!