WordPress Tutorial: Image Captions and Text Alignment

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Update September 2008: With WordPress 2.6 +, image captions are built into the core image/media manager so no more need for plugins! Also, the video directly below is using WP 2.6.1 and the new media manager, its upload, editing, alignment, and caption function — all built into the core now. See this post that has a new screencast.

Older version of WordPress help video tutorial using an image caption plugin below.

Captions for images are tricky enough, then add text alignment (wrapping) and CSS and it’s a recipe for disaster. Using the “Image Caption” plugin for WordPress and the simple alignment tool in WordPress, I’ll walk through aligning images, their captions, and the surrounding text.

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About Bradley Charbonneau

I've done the big corporate thing. I've done the creative writer thing. Now I'm happily in the middle. I like to help small businesses who are interested in "working their website before their website works them." I'm also interested in creating beautiful sites with powerful WordPress themes.

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9 Responses to WordPress Tutorial: Image Captions and Text Alignment

  1. Robin Sparks November 23, 2008 at 4:26 am #

    Great but I what’s with the deleting certain bits of code? I can’t mimic that because I don’t know why you deleted the html code. The rest I understand.

  2. discount electronics September 4, 2009 at 7:16 pm #

    Image captions and text alignment need css technique, I think it’s easy.

  3. Melee November 22, 2009 at 9:39 am #

    The tree isn’t there…

  4. Parag November 20, 2011 at 9:55 pm #

    Please help me !! The actual site on which I am working – http://www.rexnordindia.in is under construction, so I m providing you the link of my another site – http://latestpricelistindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Sample.jpg I want the content alignment as shown in the link. I have tried P-tag but no avail. Help me !!!!

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