Title: Showing Captions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Showing Captions

 *  [casp3r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casp3r/)
 * (@casp3r)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showing-captions/)
 * When clicking on an image in the gallery I have selected Lightbox as the effect
   for displaying the pop up image. Is there any way of showing the image caption
   instead of the ‘Image 1 or 12’ that is currently showing?
 * Many thanks in advance.
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