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No Image Captions Dentro

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conshelf

Template 4 years ago

Hello,

I cannot get the image caption to appear for any images (adding it under the Joomla image section since there is no place to add a caption or alt text under the Helix Blog Images), is there a way I can add image captions to my images?

The alt text seems to be the article title.

This is causing issues with SEO and some of my images are needing captions to credit the photographers.

Kind regards, John

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8 Answers
Toufiq
Toufiq
Accepted Answer
Senior Staff 4 years ago #41745

Hi there,

Thanks for contacting us. Sorry for the inconvenience. Yes, This feature is removed. I have informed our developer team. I hope they will add.

-Thanks

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conshelf
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4 years ago #41770

Hi Toufiq,

I came up with a solution, by adding this line (had to remove < and ? to post php references):

php echo '<span class="image-caption">' . htmlspecialchars($images->image_fulltext_caption) . '</span>'; 

Just under this line in the default.php file here (templates/dentro/html/com_content/article/default.php):

php echo LayoutHelper::render('joomla.content.full_image', $this->item);

Along with this CSS:

span.image-caption {
  color: #000;
  font-size: 14px;
  font-style: italic;
  position: absolute;
  background: #ffffff;
  bottom: 0;
  margin: 20px 0;
  padding: 4px 20px;
  right: 0;
}

This enables me to use Joomla's caption field under "Images & Links" for the caption on the Full image. It's not a perfect solution since the span field still appears when there's no caption, but at least I can add a caption to the image and it looks good.

Link to an example in the hidden content.

Kind regards, John

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conshelf
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4 years ago #41773

Hi Toufiq,

It would be great to see fields under the blog image for ALT text and Caption, but at the very least we should have a field for ALT text.

Pulling the ALT text from the article title is not SEO friendly especially for those needing Accessibility features, the ALT text should be describing what is in the image, this way screen readers can help people with disabilities know what the image is about.

I do hope this is added back soon.

Kind regards, John

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Toufiq
Toufiq
Accepted Answer
Senior Staff 4 years ago #41786

We will think about it in the future. Thanks

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Charlie
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2 years ago #96648

It is better to have a choice to use Joomla Default thumbnail setting....I think the Blog Image setting under Ultimate is not that flexible....., could you request tech team to add that feature? Thanks

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Toufiq
Toufiq
Accepted Answer
Senior Staff 2 years ago #96742

Can you explain where exactly should be and why. I need proper user exprience data to change anything. Before change something we need proper explanation to change the UI/UX. Thanks

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Charlie
Accepted Answer
2 years ago #96825

The user experience: The Blog Image can be selected from the server folder, (not delete and reupload from local folder), and has capability for caption or alt text.

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Toufiq
Toufiq
Accepted Answer
Senior Staff 2 years ago #96913

Sorry this feature not available right now. We will try to improve it future. Thanks

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