If no caption, no title?

Hi orionsnym – Thanks for the kind words about the RPS Image Gallery plugin – we are glad that you like it.

What you are wanting to do is not possible in the current version, but we will look to see if this can be accomplished for a future release.

We appreciate your suggestion – thanks for sending it along!

Having looked into this again, what you are trying to accomplish may be possible, assuming we understand the objective.

Try the following shortcode arguments for the gallery and see if it gives you the results you want:

[gallery heading="true" caption="true" caption_source="caption"]

Based on the above code, we see a gallery of images with titles and captions, if a caption exists for the image. Let us know how it turns out.

Hiya! Thanks for looking into it. I gave it a spin, and the shortcodes you’ve provided generate captions from the titles when no caption is provided, definitely. But my trouble is the opposite: I want to obliterate the titles entirely and never show them under any circumstances (this is because the titles are derived from the file name of the image, and I’d like to make it easy on my writers so that they don’t ever need to rename those images or titles) BUT I still want to be able to use captions *sometimes*.

I played around with your shortcodes, and it appears that setting heading to FALSE produces what I’m looking for! (caption_source doesn’t seem to be a necessary variable for my purpose.) Think that could ever be an optional setting in Redux, to separate heading and caption that way? Thanks a ton!

You know, I think I may have spoken too soon. While [gallery heading="false" caption="true" caption_source="caption"] works for the in-page display, it doesn’t work for the overlay. It still displays title text (which in our case defaults to gibberish!).

Just letting you know we still intend on looking into this issue for you.

We may have found a workaround. If you set the global option “Display the image title” to false (unchecked) for the plugin it seems as though this hides the title of the image both in the slideshow and the gallery. Give that a try and let us know if it works for you. If so, we need to look at the behavior variance between using the settings and the shortcode argument.

You can access the settings by pointing your browser to the following path on your site:

/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=rps_image_gallery_options

In my testing with Redux’s options, what I found is that turning off “display image title” under “Gallery” does properly hide the title from showing up as under the image in the gallery, but contrary to the option statement, the title nevertheless shows up after the image counter in the slideshow. (I don’t know whether that’s a bug, but as written — “The title appears just below the image in the gallery grid and after the image counter in the slideshow” — it doesn’t appear to be behaving properly when disabled; it’s doing the first but not the second.)

If I turn off “show the slideshow title area” under “Slideshow,” it does disable the titles in the slideshow, but disables captions as well, which is not the intended effect. I’d like it to show captions if there’s a caption, but if there is no caption, I don’t want it to show the title at all. Playing around with different combinations of titles and captions on and off in “gallery” and “slideshow” just isn’t producing exactly what I need. :/

I do notice that there are no caption options on the “slideshow” settings menu at all (whereas under the “gallery” settings, title options and caption options are separate).

I very much appreciate your help!

We believe we have this issue worked out in the latest build of the plugin though it is still undergoing testing. Let us know if you would be interested in testing a pre-release version. Thanks.