Title: Embeds with caption, how?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Embeds with caption, how?

 *  Resolved [Diana K. Cury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianakc/)
 * (@dianakc)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeds-with-caption-how/)
 * Hello,
 * I need to embed videos from Vimeo, YouTube etc with some caption (captions = 
   descriptive text about the video, not subtitles), how can I do that?
 * Also I thought the embed would turn the videos responsive?!
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 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeds-with-caption-how/#post-5658129)
 * > I need to embed videos from Vimeo, YouTube etc with some caption (captions 
   > = descriptive text about the video, not subtitles), how can I do that?
 * Are you referring to closed captions? If so, you can follow the instructions 
   here to learn how to add closed captions to Youtube embeds:
    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsCn1LwTF4s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsCn1LwTF4s)
 * I can’t seem to find any options for Vimeo embeds, though.
 * > Also I thought the embed would turn the videos responsive?!
 * If you want videos to be responsive on your site, you can follow the instructions
   here:
    [http://jetpack.me/support/responsive-videos/](http://jetpack.me/support/responsive-videos/)
 *  Thread Starter [Diana K. Cury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianakc/)
 * (@dianakc)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeds-with-caption-how/#post-5658134)
 * Hi Jeremy, thanks a lot for reply. The responsive trick works well 🙂
 * Still, I need the video captions, not closed caption, just a descriptive text
   below the video, like captions in images. I need to inform about licences and
   authorship in videos through captions.
 * There is a [caption] shortcode that works almost ok, but can’t enter html tags
   in the caption text (e.g. links, italics, etc).
 *  Thread Starter [Diana K. Cury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianakc/)
 * (@dianakc)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeds-with-caption-how/#post-5658135)
 * I’m using [caption] as follow, but there are 2 things: can’t use visual editor
   again because the shortcode will be lost and in the rendering, I have a extra
   p before the caption text 🙁
 * `[caption width="666" caption="A colourful video about California"][embed]http://
   vimeo.com/116262677[/embed][/caption]`
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeds-with-caption-how/#post-5658150)
 * Thanks for the extra details.
 * The [Caption shortcode](http://codex.wordpress.org/Caption_Shortcode) isn’t really
   meant for external embeds. It was built for images. You can use it with video
   embeds and add HTML to it, but you’ll have to place the caption content inside
   the shortcode, as mentioned i[n the Codex page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Caption_Shortcode).
 * Here is an example:
 *     ```
       [caption width="666"]
       http://vimeo.com/116262677
       <a href="http://google.com">A colourful video about California</a>
       [/caption]
       ```
   
 * You’ll notice that I didn’t use any `[embed]` shortcode. That’s not necessary.
   You can find out more about embeds here:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds)
 *  Thread Starter [Diana K. Cury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianakc/)
 * (@dianakc)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeds-with-caption-how/#post-5658157)
 * Thanks Jeremy, that works fine!
 * Pity the shortcode don’t come with any css classes 🙁 I think is ok for now.
 *  [ErikMichael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikmichael/)
 * (@erikmichael)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeds-with-caption-how/#post-5658272)
 * Diana,
 * Your contact form is not coming up for me on your site. I might be doing some
   work for a client in Brazil and would like you as a local contact and someone
   to work with on a project basis.
 * Thanks!

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