Caption on featured Images

[Michael Schütt]

Hi,
I`m trying to get the caption on the featured images, but can`t get it to work. Maybe you have a solution for me?

Thanks for a great framework!
Michael

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[Jason Bobich]

Hello Michael,

There’s no feature for this, unfortunately. You’d need to just add in your caption in your markup below the featured image within the loop of whatever display of posts you’re working with.

You can find this area of the theme by editing the corresponding template part for whatever loop of posts you’re modifying. For example, if it’s any kind of post list, by default this will always be content-list.php — You’d just copy this file to your Child theme to edit it.

http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/editable-content-files/

If you’re dynamically putting together a caption from some data saved to the attachment, this is a helpful function to get the attachment ID of the featured image within the loop:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_thumbnail_id

Possibly something along these lines:

<?php echo get_post_field('post_excerpt', get_post_thumbnail_id() ); ?>

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_field

[Michael Schütt]

Hello Jason,
thanks for your reply. That`s very helpful – I`ll work on that.

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