Titles, Caption, Alt Text and Description

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  themovieandthemuse · Member · Jan 21, 2018 at 10:52 am

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  Hi

  Some help needed with this please. I have read up on a few articles now about alt text, titles, captions, etc and am still confused.

  Many of my current posts are simply a photo and then me recaptioning the photo. Please see my blog for an example of what I mean.

  So for the purpose of the metadata, I am wondering how best to fill in the following:

  Title
  Caption
  Alt Text
  Description

  The bit that is confusing me is the Caption could perhaps be the caption I am quoting on my post, but then that could also be used for the alt-text and maybe even the description, so won’t I end up duplicating and is this a problem or does that really not matter?

  So, do I need to fill in Title, Caption, Alt Text and Description or can I get away with just one or two of them filled?

  Hope this makes sense. A working example would really help here.

  Thanks

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  drunkentennis · Member · Jan 23, 2018 at 1:47 am

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  Good day,

  Please refer to this guide below for descriptions of the image metadata:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-settings/

  Title – is for you to search the image later in the Media Library.
  Caption – will show up on the blog post if you fill in the data (don’t need caption if you don’t want text to display underneath the image).
  Alt-Text – in case readers cannot load the image, this data will show up instead (optional also).
  Description – it’s optional.

  Hope this can clear up some concerns for you.

  Cheers,
  Win