Image Caption Poorly Placed on Page – Gutenberg Annoyance

  • Resolved mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    First, I could not search this specific forum, there was no search box for it, only a search box to search all WordPress.org which was useless.

    Second, this new Guttenberg should have stayed in the fix-it sandbox. There are a lot of nice things about it, but with the issues that are popping up trying to work it, are taking their toll over the good points.

    In regards to this specific issue of the Image caption.

    When an image block is inserted into the page, below the line of text, then image is inserted, there is a part of that block to add a caption.

    The caption area is in the middle of the image block. When the caption is written and page saved, then previewed, the page shows the image at the left (no alignment as intended) and the caption is at the middle of the page, it is not even under the image.

    When I toggle the size of the image as “50%’, in the image block, the caption snaps to underneath the image and shows the same when previewed. When the image size is returned to 100%, the caption snaps back to the middle again and shows the same in the previewed page.

    Plus there is no alignment for this caption to take it out of center, not using the visual editor. In the HTML editor for the block, there is NO text alignment at all for the caption, so Gutenberg WordPress is causing the text to align center on the page where there is No HTML centering at all.

    Is this the design of this editor? Didn’t they test this most common and simple element of web page design before releasing this Guttenberg?

    I dread even thinking of venturing further into this Guttenberg editor if this is caption issue proves to be the precursor to a long rein of annoyances and headaches.

    I know I am ranting a bit here, but what is the fix for this caption issue?

    Here is a screenshot of this issue,

    https://prnt.sc/lrw8jz

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by mwarbinek. Reason: More info
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by mwarbinek. Reason: more info
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  • BestScamEver

    (@bestscamever)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Unbelievable. This is clearly a problem with Gutenberg, and instead of attempting to fix it… the admin just says “no, it’s not broken, you’re broken!”

    Now, for every image we insert in to a post, we have to mess around with the image size percentage to get the caption to align with it. Oh, and there is no way to make the editor remember that we want images to link to the media file by default, as we could always do before this abomination of an editor was installed.

    The Gutenberg editor is a massive fail. I’m talking Titanic level of failure. And all we get is nonsense about how it’s our fault. Fix it.

    Thread Starter mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    @bestscamever

    As a FYI note, the classic editor plugin, which is the WordPress editor before Gutenberg, has already reached 1 million + users since it was offered in late fall 2018, about the same time as WordPress 5.0 arrived. That is how unsuccessful the Gutenberg editor has become.

    By the way I marked it as resolved – meaning it has been established how bad Gutenberg editor is.

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