Adding captions to pictures in Gallery
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I am using WordPress.com free. I am using the Sketch theme. After I create a Gallery of pictures, I can’t add captions to any of the images. In fact the toolbar does not look like it is supposed to (there is only ‘Change Alignment’ and ‘More options’)
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi, the site you listed doesn’t use Sketch, but I can see you have a few that do. Could you send a link to the exact page you’re struggling with, so we can take a look and see what you’re seeing?
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Sorry. I didn’t add the last sentence.
Here is the page: https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2016-gigs/
It has a Gallery inside Columns.
This page: https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2018-italy/
has a Gallery on its own, and I can add white text over the pictures.
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You may be thinking of the Tiled Gallery Block, this will allow you to add captions like you used to: https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/blocks/tiled-gallery-block/
With the other Gallery Block, you’ll need to add your captions separately in the Media Library: https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-settings/
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Thanks. That doesn’t work for me. The tiled Gallery at https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2018-mikes-mum/
doesn’t allow me to add titles, and if I add a title in every possible field in the Media Library, it still doesn’t appear. The image of my mum in a deckchair, for example, should say “Honeymoon 1948” but I can’t see it. -
Actually the tiled Gallery gives an error so may not be working properly. Still, I tried using the Media Library method for a normal Gallery e.g.
https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2016-gigs/
and it doesn’t show on the gallery. It show when you click on the first image though.
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The block appears to be corrupt.
How did you add the captions?
The process is similar to the steps under “Reordering Images” at https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/blocks/tiled-gallery-block/ if you click on each image there, you’ll be able to enter a caption.
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For the gallery at https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2016-gigs/ you have entered a Title for the image in the Media Library, but not a Caption.
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Hi. Thanks again. I have gone to the Media library and added the caption into all the boxes, and it still doesn’t appear.
https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2018-mikes-mum/
and
https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2016-gigs/
I abandoned the Tiled option as it always seems to crash. I deleted the page and recreated it – same problem.
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I tried to use “Edit Gallery” but I never get an “Edit” button.
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Good Morning –
Please double check that the gallery in question is not opened up on any other devices (tablet, phone, computers…) That could interfere with your editing abilities.
Also, please visit https://supportdetails.com/ and share the following details with us.
– operating system type and version number
– browser type
– browser version numberIt’d be worth clearing your browser cache too:
Last thing, check if the behavior continues from a different browser.
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Thanks for getting in touch. I tried clearing the cache but no difference.
Also same on Chrome.
I am using Mac OS X 10.15.1 and Safari 13.0.3
I couldn’t work out what to put as the recipients e-mail in “support details” Sorry.
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@mboursnell I’m having a hard time duplicating this. I’m sure part of the issue is that there are several methods for inserting a gallery right now.
Are you using more than one method, or combining methods in any way?
For the regular gallery block, I add an image, click edit, add a caption. If I want to edit the gallery again, I can do that. Is that the method you’re using currently?
Also, if you’re not sure, would you be willing to just remove the gallery and re-add it? If you’ve set captions and titles via wordpress.com/media, those will be saved and should be automatically used with your gallery.
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Ideally I want to use a Gallery with some text down the left hand side. Like this:
https://mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/2018-2/2018-sue/
I can see VERY faint grey text on the images. Take at look at this screen recording:
I would prefer text UNDERNEATH each image. Is this possible? If it is could you point me towards an example online. Thanks!
Thanks again for all your help.
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We found this was a known issue: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/11794
Sorry, I had been looking in the wrong place on that.
For the captions underneath images, right now you’d have to just insert them individually as image blocks.
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Hi!
So I don’t see anything down the left hand side on the example you gave. I do see small text white captions on some of the images.
I would prefer text UNDERNEATH each image. Is this possible?
Not in a gallery mode right now, though I’d be happy to file a request for you.
What I see right now is white text with a faint black overlay to make the text stand out a bit more. The text shows up near the bottom of each image.
Is that what you’re seeing?
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Sorry. My fault. I must have changed it to try text across the top.
Here is a page with text down the side:
https://wordpress.com/block-editor/page/mikeboursnell.wordpress.com/1002
The first image has Titles and Captions in Media saying “Honeymoon 1948” and I tried to Caption the image in the Gallery as “Joan Boursnell 1948” although I can’t see it.
Can you see anything.
Thanks again.
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Thanks macmanx. So if I insert them individually as Image blocks, then I would lose the ability to click on any image and get a sort of a “manually controlled slide show”. Is that right?
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Re: the text down the left, ah. Got it. That’s just part of your page layout rather than the gallery. I do see the text in grey on that particular image. I’m not positive why it’s in grey. I can look into that if you’d like, but it does feel right now like we’re getting tangled up between several different image / gallery options.
Do you want to wait until the bug staff-blorbo mentioned is solved? I think that will help clear things up significantly.
Even then, though, if you want text under the images, you’ll need to insert them individually. It will not be part of a slideshow. I will note, though, that if folks click on an image in a gallery for the carousel (slideshow), they will see more information about each image including its title, etc. Would that work for you for now?
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