Title: Wrong Caption text
Last modified: September 17, 2020

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# Wrong Caption text

 *  Resolved [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
 * (@hommealone)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-caption-text/)
 * Took a while to figure out that the “caption” feature uses the Excerpt field,
   and not the Caption field of the featured image; wish that was specified in an
   FAQ 😉 Right now you need to squint at the screenshot to figure that out.
 * When I enable the Caption (“Show Slide Captions” = Show) the plugin is showing
   the last text from the page’s .entry-content for slides with blank excerpt field.
   This happens if I have captions enabled but do not fill in the excerpt field 
   for one of the slides. It would be great if this could be corrected so that a
   blank excerpt field results in nothing being displayed as an excerpt, rather 
   than the wrong text.
 * I should mention that the text it is picking up erroneously comes from another
   plugin which inserts sharing icons at the bottom of the page content. (Sassy 
   Social Share plugin.)

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 *  Plugin Author [Phil Ewels](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallphil/)
 * (@tallphil)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-caption-text/#post-13450506)
 * Yes, I think that this interface was never ideal and has become even more problematic
   with the new WordPress editor interface (as I remember it, I configured the old
   editor to move the excerpt to the top of the page so it was a _little_ more intuitive..)
 * It could be good to rethink the whole excerpt thing now. I think this was originally
   to ensure that the text was unformatted? I wrote that code a loooong time ago
   now though so I’m not sure. Can you think of any reason why not to use use the
   page content now?
 *  Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
 * (@hommealone)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-caption-text/#post-13450670)
 * Hi Phil,
 * You’d need to give the Content field a try I guess. Certainly that has the possibility
   of more customization for the user.
 * Perhaps one reason to leave it as is might be so that everyone’s already-existing
   captions that were created using the _excerpt_ field will continue to work? Or
   maybe you can handle that with some php logic: if the excerpt is not empty, use
   the excerpt, or else if the content field is not empty, use the content. Either
   way, checking if the field is not empty first might help the problem I faced,
   of picking up the _wrong_ text from somewhere else.
 * (BTW, I can add html tags into the excerpt field and they are picked up, but 
   maybe that’s just my setup.)
 * Also perhaps germane here: I wanted the Title to show up at the very top of the
   slide (relative to the entire slide container), with the caption near the bottom.
   That took some fancy CSS, since the title is within the caption container (`.
   carousel-caption`), which does not fill the entire slide. Perhaps it should not
   be in the caption container?
 * And to make the Title _not_ show up at all is also tricky! I had to wrap the 
   title text in span tags and specify in my stylesheet to make that `display: none`.
   Perhaps the slide’s title should have a field of it’s own, rather than using 
   the CPT item’s Title field? Then you could simply leave the field blank if you
   prefer.
 *  Plugin Author [Phil Ewels](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallphil/)
 * (@tallphil)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-caption-text/#post-13912100)
 * You can just leave the CPT post title blank I think, then the title will not 
   be shown.
 * The markup is taken from the bootstrap docs, so I would prefer not to move the
   elements around.
 * Thanks for the pointers / suggestions! If you fancy having a stab at any of this
   then the code is all open on GitHub.
 * Thanks,
 * Phil

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