{"id":2951,"date":"2016-08-04T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:34:39","slug":"add-captions-to-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/boldgrid-inspirations-plugin-product-guide\/add-captions-to-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Captions to a BoldGrid Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><div class=\"alert alert-danger\">These steps require the BoldGrid Gallery plugin to be installed, this does not work with the gallery page included in some themes.<\/div>\n<p>With the BoldGrid Image Gallery Plugin, you can easily<strong> add captions<\/strong> to your gallery to display text with your image. &nbsp;In this example, I&rsquo;ll be using the <a href=\"https:\/\/boldgrid.com\/themes\/hifidel\">Hifidel<\/a> theme, which comes with a gallery when you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/boldgrid-inspirations-plugin-product-guide\/installing-your-first-boldgrid-inspiration\/\">install the theme with&nbsp;BoldGrid Inspirations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re ready to add some captions to your images in your gallery, just follow along with the steps below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-page-with-gallery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2991 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-page-with-gallery-300x77.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" alt=\"edit page link\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-page-with-gallery-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-page-with-gallery-768x198.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-page-with-gallery-1024x264.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-page-with-gallery.png 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Edit the page that contains the gallery you want to add captions to.\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-the-gallery-on-the-page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2992 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-the-gallery-on-the-page-300x100.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" alt=\"edit gallery pencil icon\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-the-gallery-on-the-page-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-the-gallery-on-the-page-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-the-gallery-on-the-page-1024x342.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-the-gallery-on-the-page.png 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the editor, click on the gallery that you wish to edit, then click on the pencil icon.\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-gallery-captions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2980 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-gallery-captions-300x131.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" alt=\"captions input\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-gallery-captions-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/edit-gallery-captions.png 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Add the captions to the images that you wish to have text on<b>.<\/b>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/change-caption-display-settings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2984 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/change-caption-display-settings-120x300.png\" width=\"120\" height=\"300\" alt=\"caption display options\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/change-caption-display-settings-120x300.png 120w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/change-caption-display-settings.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>Change the display of the captions to your liking<b>.<\/b>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/press-update-gallery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2988 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/press-update-gallery-300x268.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" alt=\"orange update gallery button\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/press-update-gallery-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/press-update-gallery.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Save your changes by pressing&nbsp;<strong>Update Gallery<\/strong>.\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now your image captions should be displayed on your gallery images after you <a href=\"\/support\/wordpress-tutorials\/adding-a-new-page-in-boldgrid\/\">Update or Publish your page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These steps require the BoldGrid Gallery plugin to be installed, this does not work with the gallery page included in some themes. With the BoldGrid Image Gallery Plugin, you can easily add captions to your gallery to display text with your image. &nbsp;In this example, I&rsquo;ll be using the Hifidel theme, which comes with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"bgseo_title":"How to Add Captions to a BoldGrid Gallery | BoldGrid","bgseo_description":"Learn how to add Captions to a BoldGrid Gallery in WordPress.","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[133,132,102],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boldgrid-inspirations-plugin-product-guide","tag-captions","tag-gallery","tag-image-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92113,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/92113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}