fesomia

When we tested with the 5.0+ beta releases, the only thing that did not show up was the image form in the post edit page, other than that, the plugin works and will keep showing the featured image caption as usual; you just won’t be able to edit it if you use Gutenberg.

Hi Henning

You’re right, it currently doesn’t work with Gutenberg: While the options page, the shortcode and the template functions still work, It would not show up in the edit page; nothing is lost but you’ll not be able to edit the captions.

We definitely plan to add support for it but not sure if it will be in time for the WP 5.0 release

Hi @ritahoock

Seems that your installation is using the divi theme. Unfortunately this theme does not use the default wordpress function to show the featured image, so it never triggers the hook to the plugin.

Please, read the documentation and similar questions in the support forums involving this theme, the only solutions so far being:

Use the shortcode [FSM_featured_image] inside the contents of your post (you’ll have to hide divi featured image) or

Make a child of your theme (if it already isn’t), search all the templates with
print_thumbnail( $thumb, $thumbnail["use_timthumb"], $titletext, $width, $height ); (it may be different depending on the version of your theme)
and add

the_FSM_featured_image_caption();

after it, or replace it with:

the_post_thumbnail();

Hope that helps

@charlios315 Amazing! ??

Feel free to leave us some stars at https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/fsm-custom-featured-image-caption/#reviews, it will help us a lot!

Hi @charlios315

Update to the new version 1.17 to see if your problem persist.
I’ve made some changes to the plugin in order to correctly identify the post and not show up when there’s no image. Although I’ve never been able to reproduce the same problem with the excerpt, I think this could solve it.

Please, let me know if it works

Thanks for the link. I think I know where may be the problem… the next / previous links in the theme are trying to show the featured image and for some reason the plugin gets confused. I’ll do some tests with the same theme installed to see if it can be corrected.

Hi @hatisenang. Glad you like the last update

As for your question: You are correct, the plugin does not have a way to add new categories. The original use for it was to just offer a limited set of categories to the editors and enforce the use of this set, with only the administrators being able to manage and add new ones through “Posts>Categories”. Also, as it is right now, it could produce some confusion if you have the “Hide full list” option checked, as the new categories may not appear if created outside the tabbed ones.

While there are not plans to add this feature, we may add it in some way in the future

Hi @charlios315

I have not been able to reproduce the behaviour you mention, if there’s no featured image defined, the plugin should not show anything. It may be interfering with another plugin or the theme. Can you give us more details? i.e.
When does the problem appear, in lists, in a single post, both…?
Are you using the shortcode?
What theme are you using?

Also a link to the a page with the problem would be very helpful.

Hi @khurtwilliams Can’t see the images, Flickr says I don’t have permission.

But anyway, after visiting the page, the cause of your problem is that your theme already has styles defined for the <figure> tag, so when the plugin adds it around the featured image, they show up. Try to cancel this styles in the css of your theme (if its a child) or look if your theme allows you to add additional CSS styles (look in “Appearance”). i.e.:

figure.wp-caption.featured
{
background:transparent;
border:0;
padding:0;
}

That would eliminate the white border. Also, there are some additional styles you may want to add (as your theme is already using the featured image as background of the header and it looks strange:

figure.featured figcaption.wp-caption-text {line-height: 1.9;}
figure.wp-caption.featured {margin:0;}

From that, you can fine tune the css to fit your needs.

Note that the plugin only adds the necessary tags to create the intended structure but does not add any styling. While in most themes that should produce an acceptable result, some adjustments may be required to make (like in this case) to make it look better. That’s out of the scope of this plugin (it’s just not possible to make it right for every existing theme)

Hope that helped you, and thanks for using the plugin.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by fesomia.

Hi @hatisenang, check out the new 1.10 version. It comes with support for custom taxonomies! Tell us if it’s useful for you ??

Hi, sorry for the late reply, we’ve finally been able to take a look to Publisher (being a payment theme makes things more difficult), and seems that it uses it’s own method to show the featured image and caption, thus bypassing the default wordpress function our plugin actually hooks to. It may be possible to hook the plugin to a higher level, but that would be quite time consuming and too much specific to add it to the plugin. There are no plans to add support for specific themes.

The only solution in this cases is to edit your theme (or better a child of it) and replace the code that shows the featured images with the_post_thumbnail()

Hope that helps you.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by fesomia.

It’s possible that the theme manages featured images in a different way than default, we’ll try to look into it. By the way, even if that’s not what you need, have you tried using the shortcode (just to see if the plugin works)? writing [FSM_featured_image] anywhere on the content of the post should show the featured image there.

Hi @madsenmathiasyahoodk. We’ve visited the link you provided and the plugin seems to work, at least it shows “IM A CAPTION FROM MEDIA” under the image and has the correct <figure> and <figcaption> tags. Has the issue been resolved or it just does that and the options you mention still don’t work?

It also can be a problem with another plugin interfering, i.e. where does the image credit under the image come from?

By taking a look at your site, it seems the problem is solved. Let us know if you have another question.

Hi @bosni, sorry for the delay. The last update (1.16), should correct the problem you where having with the caption text showing up as a link in the navigation arrows.
Please, let us know if it works for you.