Captions in Joomla articles

Image Captions don't show in my Quickstart install. Is there a way to make them visible please?

Hi,
can I please for more details?
1) Are we talk about K2 items or default articles?
2) You are adding captions where ?

Hi Pawel F
Thanks for your reply.

I'm talking about standard Joomla articles.
I'm talking about captions added to the main image via the Joomla 3 "images & Links" facility.

http://dev.counterfire.org/game/index.php/opinion/17178-marquez-a-master-of-the-minutiae-and-the-magnitude-of-existence

ok, if you want to add captions you have to make a small customization:
1) Open in edit mode this file: templates/gk_game/html/com_content/article/default.php
2) Find line ~188 there you will find

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src="<?php echo $images->image_fulltext; ?>" alt="<?php echo $images->image_fulltext_alt; ?>"/>

before closing </div> please add following code:

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<p class="img_caption"> <?php echo htmlspecialchars($images->image_fulltext_caption) ?></p>

3) Save changes or upload changed file

Details: http://www.gavick.com/documentation/gen ... -articles/

I saw that you have problem with social icons - not all are in this same middle line.
This should fix it;

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#gkSocialAPI > iframe, #gkSocialAPI > #___plusone_0, #gkSocialAPI > a  {    top: 5px;}

Thanks Pawel F - the captions are now showing on articles where they've been added via the J3 'images & links' tab in the article editor.

I have another captions related question related to legacy content.

I've transferred >5,000 articles from a J 1.5 site, none of the captions display on these, and the usual formatting for images is not applied. - there are no margins or captions on them. Images are formatted with

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class="caption"

I can turn captions back on for these legacy articles by adding

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JHtml::_('behavior.caption');

at line 52 of components/content/controller.php, and adding the necessary styles to the CSS , however doing that messes up the formatting on any images added via the newer J3 "images & Links" facility.

Is there a way to activate the formatting and captions on legacy content with images formatted with class="caption" ?

I saw that you have problem with social icons - not all are in this same middle line.
This should fix it;

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#gkSocialAPI > iframe, #gkSocialAPI > #___plusone_0, #gkSocialAPI > a  {    top: 5px;}

Thanks Pawel F - where do I add this code?

where do I add this code?

Check my footer links have fun & have a nice day

Is there a way to activate the formatting and captions on legacy content with images formatted with class="caption" ?

You have to ask php developer - probably you need extra migration tool.

Is there a way to activate the formatting and captions on legacy content with images formatted with class="caption" ?

You have to ask php developer - probably you need extra migration tool.

So, to clarify, your templates will not work with content that has been created for earlier versions of Joomla?

where do I add this code?

Check my footer links have fun & have a nice day

I've tried using the template override, that doesn't work.
It would really be much more helful if you'd just tell me where the code needs to go...

But captions you have in right place,
also social icons are now in the middle, so all works fine.

About migration, sorry but we do not deal with this topic. You should ask for example team who created jUpgrade Pro or SP Upgrade - they are experts in such a problems. Nobody ever said that migration is easy.

Thanks Pawel.
For the benefit of anybody else who has this issue, there's a plug-in called EasyImageCaption that can re-apply legacy captions that disappear after moving to J3 :
EasyImageCaption:
http://joomla.roemer-online.org/

its solved the issue for my 5000 migrated articles.

Thanks for info, it's always good to know.
I have added into our manual: http://www.gavick.com/documentation/gen ... -articles/