No Gallery Image captions displayed in RSS feed reader for subscribers.

  • I may be missing this answer somewhere in my search. If so Thank you in advance for your patience.

    I use WP 3.5.1 and the latest version of Suffusion theme. I created a gallery for a specific post with captions for each image. It displays as expected on the blog at https://www.ramblingbarba.com/photo-friday-28/

    However, the captions do not display at all on the various readers I have checked. I subscribed to my Feedburner feed as well as myblog.com/feed and myblog.com/feed/rss2. I also use Mailchimp for email subscriptions and the captions aren’t there either.

    I am missing something somewhere and just can’t see it. This is a recurring post series but this week was the first time I thought to use the gallery to publish it. If it will work it is a lot less work adding the captions rather than trying to align the post and pics.

    Thank you for any help

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  • The captions are all available in your raw RSS feed file. Whether your chosen feed reader displays them is another matter entirely and quite beyond the control of WordPress.

    Thread Starter hagermank

    (@hagermank)

    I skimmed through the feed and saw it there but couldn’t figure out why it doesn’t show.

    So far I have only found one reader that displays the captions and it’s a desktop version(Feed Demon). It seems a little counter-intuitive to leave off that info. What’s the point of a reader without bringing in the post info?

    Thanks for the help. I guess there’s no way to force captions through?

    Nothing that WordPress can do, no.

    Thread Starter hagermank

    (@hagermank)

    esmi, I notice in my feed (sample below)the caption is included in the feed with the “alt=” attribute and not the “caption=” attribute.

    <a href='https://www.ramblingbarba.com/photo-friday-28/kickflip/' title=''><img width="300" height="300" src="https://www.ramblingbarba.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/kickflip-300x300.jpg" class="attachment-medium" alt="We went to the park this week on a recognizance mission. I shared earlier that this particular park has a small skate area made of concrete. As the day wore on the graffiti covered pit filled. Some of these guys were really good skaters." /></a>

    I used the create gallery option to make the post today. On a post on Sep. 24th
    https://www.ramblingbarba.com/disaster-is-adventure-is-disaster/
    I used the image caption to credit the photo. It came through fine in Google reader et al.

    This was an individual image added inline with the text of the post. Today’s post was added via the add media button>create gallery then add the short code [gallery size=medium]

    The Sep. 24th post has the caption following it in the feed today’s does not.
    What do you think? Thanks

    Thread Starter hagermank

    (@hagermank)

    Here is a clip from the feed for today’s post https://www.ramblingbarba.com/jesus-street-cred/ :

    <div id="attachment_3553" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 399px"><img class="size-full wp-image-3553" alt="Street Cred" src="https://www.ramblingbarba.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bullseye.jpg" width="389" height="434" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Street Cred</p></div>

    I added a caption for the purpose of trying to figure this out. This is an individual image and not a gallery. The class=”wp-caption-text”>< is included therefore the caption is included in the feed and is displayed with the image in readers. This isn’t present with the gallery function so the caption isn’t being displayed with the image.

    Is the only recourse to individually load images and captions without using the gallery option to get the mark up needed for the captions to display?

    Thread Starter hagermank

    (@hagermank)

    Anyone? I’m not saying WordPress has a problem. I’m just wondering about how to best utilize the create gallery function for my purpose.

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