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Indeed, the plugin isn’t displaying the preview for Google Drive URLs. Consequently, FIFU’s Alternative Text field isn’t being displayed.
A fix for this will be released in the next version, 5.2.5.
When that’s ready, use FIFU’s Alternative Text for the caption, as it is used for both the Alt and Caption attributes.
Therefore, you won’t use the field provided by the FSM plugin, which is for local featured images, not remote featured images.
And yes, FIFU hides the button for local featured images to avoid confusion. To make it visible again, simply remove the image URL.
The FSM fields are being hidden as well because they add content exactly in the same HTML tag as the local featured image button.
Thank you for quick response,
But the FSM field works with both, local and FIFU remote GD image links. I use this for a long time now.
When this field suddenly disappeared isn’t exactly clear to me. Since which version of FIFU?
Could you create a little bigger space for Alternative (Captions) Text field like FSM please?
And the big question is, will this Alternative Text field be backwards compatible with the FSM caption field and keep my captions inserted with it for both local and remote featured images, so I don’t need FSM plugin anymore?
Probably version 5.2.2, when enhancements were made to the input fields.
Sure, I’ll try to make the Alternative Text field larger.
As for disabling the FSM plugin, that’s your decision, since it may have other functions you need. However, FIFU will continue to have its own field to describe the images.
Thanks, so I’ll have to find out if the FSM field is picked up by FIFU 5.2.5?
I’m sorry for the stupid questions, but I’m not a coder/dev to understand exactly what is going on.
But if there’s a possibility to merge the caption fields so I don’t need FSM anymore, that would be a plugin less what’s always a plus I guess.
Thanks for FIFU!
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This reply was modified 8 months, 4 weeks ago by
BlackBoXz.
For now, while version 5.2.5 isn’t available, you could try using an image URL that’s not hosted on Google Drive. Then, FIFU’s alternative text will be displayed, and you can run all the tests you need involving FSM and FIFU.
Version 5.2.5 won’t be much different, except that it will also support Google Drive URLs and feature a larger input field.
5.2.5 installed and you’re right FIFU and FSM are not compatible, when inserted a Google link in FIFU, FSM dissappears, but I don’t know why because it worked for years.
Preview is back.
Last update of FSM Custom Featured Image Caption was 8 months ago.
I’ll have to use both if I don’t want to lose all my captions inserted with FSM.
greetings,
when inserted a Google link in FIFU, FSM dissappears, but I don’t know why because it worked for years.
“Since version 5.2.2, FIFU hides the button for local featured images to avoid confusion. The FSM fields are being hidden as well because they add content exactly in the same HTML tag as the local featured image button.”
I’ll have to use both if I don’t want to lose all my captions inserted with FSM.
FIFU uses the fifu_image_alt custom field to store the alternative text (also used as the caption). Since it seems FSM also uses custom fields to store captions, theoretically, you could copy the texts from the FSM custom fields to FIFU in whichever way you prefer. Using a SQL command, this would be very easy. After that, you could disable FSM if you wish.
The alt.text FIFU is showed by hovering over the featured image but isn’t visible beneath the image right?
FIFU doesn’t display any image or text. The theme does that. The only thing FIFU does is organize the database so the theme has those elements available when it needs them. Anyway, I will review the code to make sure it’s saving the text in the registers recommended by WordPress for captions. I will let you know if I find any issue.
After reviewing the plugin code, FIFU was indeed not writing the text into the database field designated for the caption. Consequently, themes, even those that call for the caption, were not displaying it next to the image. This will be fixed in the next version, 5.2.6.
Ok, this will be the same caption field that FSM plugin uses? I hope there won’t be a conflict?
Captions are displayed at the bottom of an image not next to the image?
I don’t know what field is used by your plugin.
Yes, I meant close to the image, normally at the bottom. Anyway, who decides where and how it’s displayed, as explained, is the theme, not FIFU.
