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You need to improve your tone. If you can’t, you have no business being a moderator. And you need to spend more time answering questions and less time telling people what does and does not matter. If the forum has features that users aren’t supposed to use, that very much does matter. Anyway I’ve had enough of your nagging and will not be reading your replies.

Then why is the contact information in peoples’ profiles? If we’re not supposed to use it then people shouldn’t be posting it and the website shouldn’t even have a way to do that.

I sent you the link via the contact form on your website. I prefer not to post it here and for some strange reason this forum does not have PM ability like most forums.

I have found a weird and confusing way to get captions to appear in the lightbox: use a plug-in called Restore Image Title (RIT). It has complicated interaction effects on the behavior of titles and captions in WP including Easy Fancy Box.

First you have to understand the stupid and contradictory uses of the word ‘title’ in WP and Windows. Namely: WP gets its titles from the filenames and its captions from the titles.

Image titles in WP are taken from the *name* in Windows (aka filename). What Windows calls the title is read into the *caption* field when you upload an image into WP. Windows has no field called caption.

RIT forces WP to get its titles from the Windows title field instead of from filenames. It does not work retroactively and only affects images uploaded while RIT is activated.

Most importantly for the current problem, RIT has a bizarre side-effect which is to cause captions to appear in the lightbox where there were none before. (Due to the main function of RIT, these captions are the Windows titles if RIT was activated at the time the image was uploaded; if not, the caption is the Windows filename.)

Meanwhile, the captions in the post itself (non-lightbox) are not affected and remain what Windows calls titles.

That doesn’t work. I tried the following and nothing happened. Is this what is meant by “add in a Custom HTML widget”? If not can you please tell me what I need to be doing?

Appearance > Widgets > Custom HTML > Add Widget > paste in the above HTML > Save > Done

Thanks for getting back to me. Can I email it to you or otherwise get it to you without posting publicly? Only because the URL is my real name and forums have too many trolls and other kinds of risks. I realize you could go and post it anywhere which could be at least as bad but at least this would reduce the exposure somewhat. Many thanks.

Wow, thank you! It worked. I spent hours troubleshooting this in every conceivable setting and trying various gallery plugins.

PS

I tried four other themes and they all display captions in galleries without any problems no matter how many columns are used, so the bug would seem to be specific to Twenty Seventeen.

Thanks Tarau, that worked.

PS – I tried half a dozen other themes and none of them have this problem.

Is it not possible to provide a solution based on the screenshot?

Thanks, the vanilla-wp.org instructions solved it.

Question – how did you find that page? Did you do a search and if so, what words did you search for? I am asking because sometimes when I can’t find online help by searching, someone else knows a way to phrase the search that works. Or did you just happen to already know about that site?

sides, not siades

Is that a limitation of your theme?

Are you asking, have I tried any other themes to see if they allow me to see the drafts?

Two questions –

1 – I couldn’t tell if you were implying that drafts normally should be visible and so it would be a flaw (or some odd decision on the part of the designers) in my particular theme. Can you clarify? It does seem to me like draft visibility would be the default for more or less all themes.

2 – I’m hesitant to try a different theme since I customized mine with a child theme, and also a few changes in the parent (which I know you’re not supposed to do but learning how to put these changes in the child is not an option now) and I’m afraid I’d lose the customizations.

feel free to delete this thread if that is possible.