How do I centre image captions?

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  ladystormhold · Member · May 14, 2014 at 5:53 pm

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  I am on the McKinley theme – while the image captions appear centred in the post page, they appear aligned left on my blog.

  I have referred to the forums on this topic but can’t make sense of the solutions provided and will be grateful for help on this.

  Many thanks.

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  mindybowman · Member · May 14, 2014 at 5:58 pm

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  Have you tried selecting the caption and then choosing the “align center” option in the toolbar?

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  ladystormhold · Member · May 15, 2014 at 10:28 pm

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  Hi Mindybowman,

  Thanks for your response. Yes I”ve tried that – selecting the caption and then choosing ‘align centre’ in the toolbar is the only way I could get the caption to appear centre in the ‘edit post’ page. However the caption still appears aligned left in the post.

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  mindybowman · Member · May 16, 2014 at 1:28 pm

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  Apparently this is part of the base theme. (I tried several different things and am getting the same results.)

  If it’s mega important, you can change this, but you will have to get the upgrade: http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/.

  Then throw in some custom CSS: http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/ and http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/css-basics/

  And then you can check out this forum post for the code you need: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-caption-text?replies=4#post-1141041.

  Hope that helps. :)

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  ladystormhold · Member · May 16, 2014 at 3:23 pm

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  That’s wonderful – thanks very much for the help! :)

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  mindybowman · Member · May 16, 2014 at 3:33 pm

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  You are most welcome! Happy blogging! :)