Author attributions in WordPress 6.4

WordPress 6.4, scheduled for release on November 7th, 2023, will contain two frontend features for images related to displaying author attributions. Some of you have been asking in support about how Image Source Control is going to handle them.

These options are:

• opening an image in a lightbox
• adding a background image to a group

The answer to both is: we’ll see how they are going to be implemented and used. Especially with the lightbox feature it felt that every beta release changed the behavior. So it was impossible to prepare in time for the update.

Right now, it seems that captions added by Image Source Control will be visible in the lightbox, but the position might differ from the one chosen in the ISC options.

I would first like to see how this differs based on the theme before working on a general solution. If you are not happy with the caption in the lightbox, please open a new ticket here in the forum and let us figure out an individual solution for your site.

As for background images for groups: it is possible to display the author attribution as a caption for those by following the latest tutorial How to display and style captions for group background images.

Thomas