remove captions from front page

  • Jeremy

    (@alittlenegative)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, I’m having an issue with captions being grabbed and displayed on the front page of my site in the short excerpts of each post. I’d rather have them not included. I did a bit of research and I’m confused about whether or not excerpts should have shortcodes (which I think include captions?) removed. Is it normal behavior for a theme to display them on the front page, or is it an error? And what’s the easiest way to remove them? I don’t use manual excerpts, if that makes a difference. We’re using kind of an aging theme, which might be part of the issue.

    Site: http://bit.ly/1XUDc5i

    Thank you for your help.

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  • Luke Stacey

    (@daftduke)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there!

    I think I see what you mean. This code will remove the captions box to the right of the image:


    Screenshot

    Try this snippet of CSS to hide them:

    .wp-caption-text {
  display: none;
}

    You can paste this code in your child theme’s style.css or in a custom css plugin such as Simple Custom CSS.

    I hope that helps!

    Cheers,

    Luke the Daft Duke

    Thread Starter Jeremy

    (@alittlenegative)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you for responding! That code does hide the captions but it does so for all pages. I wanted to hide them on my home page while still having them show on the single article page.

    Thread Starter Jeremy

    (@alittlenegative)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Based on some searching through the forums, it looks like the easiest way to remove captions from the front page excerpts might be to strip shortcodes? I’m seeing a lot of threads but I don’t know enough php to know where to insert the code.

    for instance: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-being-pulled-into-excerpt?replies=9

    Luke Stacey

    (@daftduke)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t think you need to use function, it’s just a matter of being super specific with the CSS.

    Because it’s an old theme, its just a little tricky.

    How about this…

    Remove the captions everywhere using the previous code…

    .wp-caption-text {
  display: none;
}

    but then display them on the individual post pages:

    (i.e. so they would appear here)

    .list-news .single .wp-caption-text {
  display: block;
}

    I think that will do the trick but I can’t test this theme out – not even sure what it’s called 🙂 so give it a try and if not I’ll take another shot.

    I hope that helps!

    Luke the Daft Duke

    Thread Starter Jeremy

    (@alittlenegative)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    That worked perfectly! I didn’t know you could do that with css, that’s good to know.

    Thanks so much for helping, I appreciate it.

    Luke Stacey

    (@daftduke)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    No problem. Your welcome! 🙂

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