Title: caption to description + alt
Last modified: October 30, 2017

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# caption to description + alt

 *  [meravjon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meravjon/)
 * (@meravjon)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-to-description-alt/)
 * Hi
    I’m uploding images with IPTC metadata. The IPTC description fills the caption
   filed in the wordpress. How can I change to: IPTC title = wordpress title+caption.
   IPTC description = wordpress discription+alt. I’ve been searching for solution
   but couldn’t find one. Please help me with that. I have about 6’000 images I 
   need to upload. I’m using ACDsee software to enter metadata if it helps.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-to-description-alt/#post-9631935)
 * If your intention is to take WP data and apply it permanently to the image’s 
   embedded IPTC data, I’m unaware of such a plugin. Coding one’s own plugin is 
   a possibility if you have the requisite skills. If you did have such skills, 
   I don’t think you would be asking about it here, so I guess that’s not an option
   🙂
 * What is possible is to display WP meta data as the caption in place of using 
   the IPTC data. The end result will appear the same on your site, the difference
   is the image’s IPTC data is not changed. What’s required to do this is mainly
   altering the template or shortcode that displays images with captions. You are
   still looking at some custom coding for this, but it’s much more accessible than
   code that alters embedded IPTC data.
 *  Thread Starter [meravjon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meravjon/)
 * (@meravjon)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-to-description-alt/#post-9632947)
 * I found out that if I change wp-admin\includes\media.php to:
 *     ```
       $attachment = array_merge( array(
       		'post_mime_type' => $type,
       		'guid' => $url,
       		'post_parent' => $post_id,
       		'post_title' => $title,
       		'post_content' => $excerpt,
       		'post_excerpt' => $excerpt,
       	), $post_data );
       ```
   
 * I get the description IPTC to the description field in woordpress.
    however I
   don’t want to change this file I’m looking for a hook that can make it throw 
   functions.php
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-to-description-alt/#post-9634089)
 * A hook to alter what exactly? The caption output? If so, it depends on how your
   theme manages captions. If it is by the [caption] shortcode, you can hook ‘img_caption_shortcode’
   to change the caption to anything you want. This bypasses the normal caption 
   processing, it’s up to you to construct the complete output. Your callback is
   passed the shortcode attributes and the img element for possible use in the construction.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-to-description-alt/#post-9634089)
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