Title: Nested link inside caption causes bracket link code duplication
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Nested link inside caption causes bracket link code duplication

 *  [Opally](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opally/)
 * (@opally)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-link-inside-caption-causes-bracket-link-code-duplication/)
 * In markup that includes an image with a caption with a link, placed using the
   WP Media Manager, the resulting code always results in a duplicated link code:
 *  [caption]…. [1][1] a link here [/caption]
 * so a partial link number code and single bracket are displayed in the caption.
 * Does MarkDown not support captions that include links?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-markdown/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-markdown/)

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 *  [Chaopale Lamecarlate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaopale-lamecarlate/)
 * (@chaopale-lamecarlate)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-link-inside-caption-causes-bracket-link-code-duplication/#post-4958531)
 * Similar to [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-markdown-breaks-image-caption](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-markdown-breaks-image-caption)
 * You just have to write
 * [caption]
 * [<img />][1]
 * [/caption]
 * ergo put blank lines around link.

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 * [caption](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/caption/)
 * [duplication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplication/)
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 * Last reply from: [Chaopale Lamecarlate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaopale-lamecarlate/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-link-inside-caption-causes-bracket-link-code-duplication/#post-4958531)
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