Title: hiding captions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# hiding captions

 *  Resolved [rollerh4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rollerh4/)
 * (@rollerh4)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-captions/)
 * Hi everyone, sorry in advance if this one has benn already sorted out.
 * I was wondering if is possible to hide the captions of some images shown in their
   thumbnails. This is the page : [http://placebopharm.gr/?p=269](http://placebopharm.gr/?p=269)
   and I want to hide these captions without removing the captions from the images.
 * Thanks in advance!
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 *  [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-captions/#post-4777411)
 * First: this has nothing to do with Easy FancyBox. Second: why would you want 
   to use captions but then hide them? Please be aware that search engines might
   see this as spam!
 * But after that said, here is a possible solution for you 😉
 * Modify your themes stylesheet and add a rule like:
 *     ```
       .wp-caption-text { display: none }
       ```
   
 * If you want to hide captions in galleries only then use `.gallery-caption` instead.
 *  Thread Starter [rollerh4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rollerh4/)
 * (@rollerh4)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-captions/#post-4777414)
 * Actually aren’t captions usefull for search engines ? That’s why I want to use
   them, but I dont want to be visible in the gallery.
 *  [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-captions/#post-4777415)
 * > Actually aren’t captions usefull for search engines ?
 * They can be, but when you are hiding them from human view search engines might
   see it as a keyword spamming technique instead. You might end up hurting your
   site more than helping it…

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 * Last reply from: [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-captions/#post-4777415)
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