Posted 2 years ago #
I want to provide credit for an image by putting a link inside the image caption however wordpress keeps stripping the link out when it's published. What's going on here?
I did a google search and found tons of people with the problem and no reasonable solutions. I was baffled to find little to no mention of this problem in the forums. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or what.
Posted 2 years ago #
If you go to the HTML editor tab after adding the caption can you not add the link around it then?
Posted 2 years ago #
I can add the link but it gets stripped if I switch between the visual and the html editor and even if I don't switch, it gets stripped when I publish.
Posted 2 years ago #
I'm having the same problem. Anyone found a solution? Seems like a ridiculous little thing to not be able to get beyond this.
** Edit **
just found this : http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=1494
It works but the whole caption is going to be an anchor text.
Posted 2 years ago #
+1
Please allow me to place a link on any set of words in the caption. This is still happening in WP 2.9.2.
Posted 2 years ago #
This seems like the definitive method to add links to captions without extra coding or any plugins:
1. Enter HTML mode
2. Add link in the caption="[...]" markup
3. Be sure that the link is applied with a single (') quote NOT a double (") quote. If a double quote is applied WP cleans it out.
I just created a plugin called Links in Captions that makes it easy to add links to captions!
It uses the following formatting: {link url="http://www.example.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"}Anchor text here{/link} and works great in Visual and HTML editors.
Posted 1 year ago #
Zack-- I downloaded it and could not get it to work. Is this really a plug in or are you just offering the code to do it?
@jfrenaye - Yes, it's a plugin - you should simply need to upload and activate the plugin, then use the syntax I mentioned above.
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