Comments on: Inserting hyperlinks in Wordpress image captions

By: Brian Reich

Brian Reich — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:47:19 +0000

I do it the same way as Doron, except, well… opposite. I use caption='link code' so I can still use double quotes for the attributes of my anchor tag. I guess the only reason it matters is that your markup can still validate in this fashion.

By: Phil Richards

Phil Richards — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:36:04 +0000

Hi, not all the tips worked for me, but I developed this format which did work. The format does not use any CSS changes or Divs and is designed to be easy, hence its a bit long winded. Its a version of Hainesy82's comment on the wordpress support forum.I hope this helps !

1. Upload image into Gallery
2. In the article put the cursor where you want the photo
3. Click Insert Image
4. Locate Image
5. Insert Alt Text
6. Insert Caption as
Photo Credit: Name of FlickR Profile
7. Remove the image URL
8. Choose Left or Right
9. Choose size
10. Click Insert into post
11. Add the following just before the [/caption] tag
small>Photo Credit: FLICKR PROFILE NAME
You will need to copy and paste the FlickR URL and the FlickR Profile name from the preparation document
12. In the HTML of the image, edit the html so that it reads caption=" " this is two spaces on the keyboard between the " quote marks.
13. Click save draft and then view the post the image should be ok now !

Phil

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:40:16 +0000

Thanks Trevor,

this worked fine for me.

Danno, if you could fix this code on the article this would be great. Really like to know how to split the caption into two parts. This is a very good idea. Thanks

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:49:08 +0000

PERFECT!!! :-)

By: jogjacentric

jogjacentric — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:30:32 +0000

thank for your tips, work perfect for me

By: Doron

Doron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:04:05 +0000

Here's what I did on my WP 2.7.1 blog and it worked perfectly:

[caption id="attachment_9" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="link goes here" ]

Basically, I went into the HTML editor for my post, and placed the anchor tag write inside the caption value, but I used SINGLE QUOTES to house the URL.

Very simple solution that seems to be working perfectly for me.

By: Hainesy82

Hainesy82 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:32:10 +0000

Check out my comment on http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208122?replies... for a good solution

By: kayjay

kayjay — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:23:13 +0000

Where did the code go? This sounds really handy, would love to be able to use it.

By: Starving Artist

Starving Artist — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:49:56 +0000

I eventually gave up trying to find an easy way to add captions with hyperlinks and now I just code it all myself. Thank goodness for copy and paste.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:41:34 +0000

Interesting, it automatically parses the link HTML so you'll just have to imagine that the "Joe Schmoe" and "License" bits are a href links.