Image Caption is included in Excerpt
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Hi,
if an Image Caption is within the first n words of a post, it is included in the Excerpt (of n words). Didn’t use to be before Gutenberg.
In my case the Post ‘Letland saneert bankensector wel’ is shown on the frontpage as excerpt, but contains the caption ‘ Letse Centrale Bank in Riga ‘.
The full post is at https://www.mmwb.nl/letland-saneert-bankensector-wel/Please advice
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Hi! Unfortunately I don’t have a solution for you can, but I can note that this issue has been reported in GitHub where the following reply was posted:
This is because wp_trim_excerpt() in core does not know about Gutenberg yet.
In WordPress 4.9, the editor creates images by using the caption shortcode. Content it creates will look like this (shortened for brevity):
[caption id= ... ]
Caption here[/caption]
In Gutenberg, images created by the image or gallery blocks look like this:
<figure class= ... ><img src="..." /><figcaption>Caption here</figcaption></figure>The wp_trim_excerpt function in core generates the automatic excerpt from content. It calls the strip_shortcodes() function on that content at one point. The old way has shortcodes for captions, the new way does not.
So, this is really more of a problem that will need to be addressed in core when Gutenberg is merged.
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