[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] NextGen Images – Alt Text and Description

I’m on 1.8.3 and at that version Nextgen is coded to use the Description field (i.e. a long field) as the ‘caption’ which I would have thought should really be the Alt & Title Text field (i.e. a short field).

If your using the shortcode [nggallery id=nnn template=caption] then it would appear its still doing this.

Yes, I am using the shortcode [nggallery id=nn template=caption]. It is displaying the (longer) description field.
Thanks,

Data

One solution is to hack the plugin which means that when you update the plugin, you will lose the changes you made.

For more details, read this: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-show-title-of-image-instead-515-and-click-to-close-on-shutter-effect?replies=3#post-1621541

I just realized that the solution in the above link won’t work. Here’s a quick solution that worked for me (though it still required editing a nextgen plugin file):

Open this file: nextgen-gallery/view/gallery-caption.php
(You can access it through the plugin editor)

Search for: php echo $image->caption
Change it to: php echo $image->alttext

Save the file and you’re done.