can I put a URL link behind an image CAPTION?

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  margaretrosestringer · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 12:56 am

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  can I put a link behind an image caption?

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  kraftbj · Staff · Oct 23, 2013 at 2:59 pm

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  Hi,

  You can insert a link within an image caption with a little bit of HTML code.

  When writing your caption, you can insert a link by adding this code <a href="http://the-site-you-want-to-link-to.com">the text in the caption that should be the link itself</a>

  That bit of code wraps the text itself within what’s called an “a” tag. The beginning of the a tag includes a reference (“href”) to where that text should take folks to.

  If you have any questions or I misunderstood this question, please let me know. Cheers!

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  margaretrosestringer · Member · Oct 25, 2013 at 6:10 pm

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  I wish I could – that’s precisely what I hoped for …
  But it doesn’t work.
  Obviously I didn’t clarify myself – a constant fault of mine, alas!
  The caption is that under my photo on my site, in an image widget in the sidebar: I want to be able to have the photographer’s byline link to his site.
  ???

  M.R.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Oct 28, 2013 at 3:50 pm

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  Ahh, yes. That appears to be a limitation of the widget that isn’t present when adding a photo to a post or page. Let me write this up for our team; this sounds like a reasonable request to me so we’ll look at adding the option to include the code snippet I suggested before.

  Hope you had a great weekend.