Image title and captions

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April 8, 2019 at 12:35 pm #479203

Martin Steimann
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Hello,

a customer just asked if there would be an easy way to give credits to photographers while uploading images to the gallery.

I started to inspect the options of the post images shortcode and noticed there is an option to display the image title. My code on the ~~Details Page~~ Archive item page looks like this:

[gd_post_images type=”image” ajax_load=”1″ slideshow=”1″ show_title=”1″ animation=”slide” controlnav=”1″ link_to=”post” show_logo=”1″]

Unfortunately the title is not shown, only on mouseover of the image. Besides of that I would wish to be able to display the image caption too, because this is where the credits could go.

1. Can you please look into the no title display issue? Maybe I have missed something.

2. Would it be possible to add and display the caption?

3. While editing the image title and caption I found 2 words that need translation. Where should I start searching for the strings: „Caption“ and „Set“? Please note attached screenshot.

Regards,
Martin

April 8, 2019 at 6:58 pm #479287

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31206

Hi,

the show_title parameter appears to be buggy. Another members reported it earlier this morning.

Developers are looking into it and will advise asap.

Thanks

April 8, 2019 at 7:41 pm #479292

Martin Steimann
Lifetime Member

Post count: 262

Hello Paolo,

Thanks for your reply. Maybe the developers can also find a way to implement the image caption too, and let admin decide whether or not to show only one of them or both. This would be a nice feature, esp. for adding credits.

Regards,
Martin

April 9, 2019 at 10:18 am #479476

Kiran
Moderator

Post count: 7069

Hello Martin,

I tested the shortcode you provided on my test site for archive page item.

1. Can you please look into the no title display issue? Maybe I have missed something.

I have added title & caption for listing image during image upload in add listing. Image title is displayed when hovering on image(see 479203-image-title.png). Image caption is added in “alt” attribute of the img tag(see 479203-image-title-caption.png).

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2. Would it be possible to add and display the caption?

Image caption is used to add in “alt” attribute of the img tag(see 479203-image-title-caption.png). Where you want to display the caption?

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3. While editing the image title and caption I found 2 words that need translation. Where should I start searching for the strings: „Caption“ and „Set“? Please note attached screenshot.

You can search those strings in geodirectory-en_US.po file.

Please provide site link, admin & FTP credentials to check why it is not working on your site.

Let us know.

Regards,
Kiran

April 9, 2019 at 10:47 am #479484

Martin Steimann
Lifetime Member

Post count: 262

Thanks for testing, Kiran.

And now I am starting to understand how title and caption of GD images work. I thought the title would be handled as a text overlay (permanently, not only on mouseover), but it would be impossible to superimpose on the small thumbnails.

And regarding the caption I thought it would not be „alt“ attribute, but a real caption that appears as text for example right below an image. This would have been the place were the credits to the photographer should appear. But again, this only makes sense on the Details Page, where there is enough room for an image caption.

So I guess I have to figure out a more convenient way to give credit to artists. Maybe I should add an extra text field to the add listing form, which is then displayed as a tab „Credits“ on the Details Page. But if a user uploads images which were shot by several different artists, you would have to give the image readable titles in order to give a visitor the chance to understand who exactly shot which image.

Hm, sounds complicated. Maybe you have a better idea how to implement credits?

Regards,
Martin

April 9, 2019 at 11:06 am #479486
Kiran
Moderator

Post count: 7069
Hello Martin,

– On archive page you can show title on image by choosing
```
type='slider'
```
&
```
show_title='1'
```
. (see archive-page-slider.png)
– On detail page it shows title on slider (see title-detail-page.png)
– On detail page > Photos tab > click photo > lightbox it shows title & caption(see title-caption-detail-detail-slideshow.png)

Kiran
April 9, 2019 at 11:24 am #479493

Martin Steimann
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April 9, 2019 at 12:07 pm #479508

Kiran
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April 9, 2019 at 12:36 pm #479511

Martin Steimann
Lifetime Member

Post count: 262

Sorry, I still don’t get it. I guess I have accidentally set the show_title=1 on the GD Archive Item Page and not on the Details Page.

I am just focusing on the Detail page, because this is the only place where I have to show the caption. Is it not possible to show a caption (please note my settings in pic Title+Caption) on the slider images on top of the page? I can only see my title on a semitransparent box (which is unfortunately not aligned to the lower image border).

I need to show the title AND caption on the semitransparent box like in your screenshot title-caption-detail-detailslideshow on the Details Page.

Thank you for your patience.

April 9, 2019 at 8:44 pm #479655

Alex Rollin
Moderator

Post count: 27815

Hi Martin,

We hear you, but the feature doesn’t work like that at this moment.

We are looking at it for future versions, though, and will provide an update here if we have news about it.

If you could provide FTP we would also like to take a look at the conflict that is causing issues for the display of info in the lightbox.

Let us know if you want us to look into that.

Thanks

April 10, 2019 at 3:01 pm #479820

Martin Steimann
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April 11, 2019 at 12:34 pm #480078

Kiran
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April 11, 2019 at 12:48 pm #480081

Martin Steimann
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Hi Kiran,

thank you for your effort!

The info overlay offset issue (the image of the boat attached in #479511) might be related to the 16:9 aspect ratio of the uploaded images. Your test images do not show this offset, the box is perfectly aligned.

It is also good to know that both title and caption will displayed on the Details Page slider images in a future update.

Regards,
Martin

May 1, 2019 at 7:07 am #483890

Martin Steimann
Lifetime Member

Post count: 262

Hello,

I have just installed the latest GD updates and noticed the UX improvements regarding the display of title and caption as an overlay on the thumbnails after having entered both at the add listing form, which is a helpful new feature. Thank you for implementing.

On my system the caption still does not show up on the slider images, which might now confuse the user. Captions are displayed in the Lightbox mode though, but usually I would not view the images through the Lightbox, because the images are already displayed in the slider when visiting the details page.

Will this feature (display title AND caption) be added, or is something wrong with my setup?

Regards,
Martin

May 2, 2019 at 6:17 am #484086

Kiran
Moderator

Post count: 7069

Hello Martin,

Will this feature (display title AND caption) be added, or is something wrong with my setup?

Image title & caption both displayed in image slide show. In image slider it shows only image title.

We will check if it is easily feasible to show image caption with image title in slider.

Kiran
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