[Plugin: Featured Image Widget] Display Description / Caption

Have you found a way to do this? I’d also like to do the same.

No unfortunately not. If you find anything, let me know!

I’ve used this function code from this thread:

// Get Featured Image Caption
function the_post_thumbnail_caption() {
  global $post;

  $thumbnail_id    = get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID);
  $thumbnail_image = get_posts(array('p' => $thumbnail_id, 'post_type' => 'attachment'));

  if ($thumbnail_image && isset($thumbnail_image[0])) {
    echo '<p class="caption">'.$thumbnail_image[0]->post_excerpt.'</p>';
  }
}

Usage:

<? echo the_post_thumbnail_caption(); ?>

Then for sidebar placement I just use the echo in a Text Widget below The Featured Image Widget using PHP Text Widget which let’s it execute php code.

I’t s a work-around, but it works pretty well. ??

-mpm