Using the Built In Gallery in WordPress 2.6 - 3

Step 4 Adding Captions

Though not necessary, I find it better to add captions for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). They find our articles and photos faster and better. It’s actually easy, just lots of copy and paste.

There are times when I have to personalize captions but those are few and far between, and it usually happens when the articles are about celebrities. Runway shows, like the example, it’s easy.

Click on SHOW and your window will look like this.

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Let’s discuss this area by area:

TITLE:

The title will become the title of the post when it is viewed as an attachment. As a rule, I just name it for what it is. In this example, since this is the Ailanto Spring 2009 collection, I just named it Ailanto Spring 2009.

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CAPTION

The caption will be seen BELOW the photo when displayed. Again. I named it Ailanto Spring 2009 in the example. Hence, it’s just a matter of pasting the title since it is already in my mouse.

If this is a celebrity photo, I usually put the celebrity name, and on a group photo, I have to put all their names.

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DESCRIPTION

You can get creative here, but since during fashion week we are always in a hurry, I just put in Ailantro Spring 2009, hence another ‘paste’ using my mouse or my keyboard.

LINK URL

Now, the fun part.

This is the reason why I highly suggested Firefox. If you are using Internet Explorer, this function does not work.

You have three choices – NONE, File URL, POST URL.

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By default, the Link URL is on File URL. As a rule, I chose POST URL, so that when a visitor clicks on the image, he or she goes to a page, not just the photo. If they want to see the full size photo, they will have to click again. Using Post URL also helps us with SEO.

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