After working long and hard to make galleries and homepage/category gallery lists display and behave like I want, I thought some of the other 'boxes' available for the homepage would be easy. Ooops. NOT.

The one that was easy was Featured Galleries - it should be, because it's just another list of galleries, so adding #featuredBox to some places in my CSS and scripts was all that was needed - just another box to behave the same.

But in the same way 'Most Popular Photos' and 'Recent Photos' are just other lists of photoboxes, right? At first glance they are, until you look at the code :(

For a start, even though the titles have 'Photos' in them and what is shown is thumbnails of photos, the thumbnails do not link to the photo they display, but instead to the gallery. That's pretty annoying, but I can probably change it.

Another difference between the two is that #popularPhotos has an extra wrapper around the thumbnails within .boxBottom (just like a gallery in allThumbs view has), but #recentPhotosBox does not - so I'd have to add an extra wrapper there first to be able to use (from then on) the same code to style and center the thumbnails. Also, an image in #popularPhotos sits in a box with class "photo" while one in #recentPhotosBox sits in a box with class "photo tiny" (and just removing that "tiny" class already changes the layout).

But why this difference? I'm sure it makes for more code on your side too, to deal with all the differences in coding (just the fact that removing 'tiny' change the layout means that you are using different styling rules for #popularPhotos and #recentPhotosBox!).

All of that I can repair, so it will all look the same as a box with photo thumbnails in a gallery does.

But one thing escapes me.

The thumbnails in #recentPhotosBox have NO alt attribute, NO title attribute, and NO caption - even though there is an empty div below it that seems to be intended for the purpose:

<div class="caption"></div>

How do I get the captions for these thumbnails to show up? The corresponding photos all have captions - they exist. They are just not present in 'Recent Photos'.

I cannot show this to my visitors without the captions present - I don't care whether it's in alt, title or the caption div, but I need it at least in one place to make to show where and how I want!

I searched and poked around till I'm blue in the face but I cannot find anywhere to configure this. What am I missing? Do I need to use the API to pull in the captions? I will if I have to, but would appreciate a (JavaScript) code example in that case.

Please help!

PLEASE NOTE

I originally put this quite deliberately not in the Customization section. That is because I am not at all sure the fact that captions are missing has anything at all to do with customization. It's possible, of course, but I tend to think that unlikely.

So I am not happy that this thread was moved to the customization section, where it may fail to capture the attention of those who might be able to explain why those captions are missing in the first place.

I'll try to put up another post pointing to this one in the hope it gets seen by the right eyes...

I put it here because if anyone can figure out how to add the captions there, and do some of the advanced customizing you want, it's our smart customizers. Right now, there are no alt tags on the recent photos thumbnails, and I apologize for the differences in the way the boxes are handled. I'm sorry :(

Originally Posted by Andy I put it here because if anyone can figure out how to add the captions there, and do some of the advanced customizing you want, it's our smart customizers. Right now, there are no alt tags on the recent photos thumbnails, and I apologize for the differences in the way the boxes are handled. I'm sorry :(

Thanks Andy, but I really want to know why they are missing in the first place! (Never mind what customization I want to do - I need the data first.) I'm not asking how to add the captions - I'm asking why they are missing!

Put differently, I'm not going to mess with the API if this is actually a bug on the server side. But we don't know that yet, do we? And I don't know who to ask...

They just weren't coded to be there, Marjolein. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you on this. We'll make sure we do the right thing as we redesign the site for our future release.

Originally Posted by Andy They just weren't coded to be there, Marjolein. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you on this. We'll make sure we do the right thing as we redesign the site for our future release.

OK, but it's odd, given that there even is a div apparently precisely for receiving a caption! Plus not missing alt and title attributes, but empty alt and title attributes.

Where do I report this as a bug then?

Originally Posted by iamback OK, but it's odd, given that there even is a div apparently precisely for receiving a caption! Where do I report this as a bug then?

No need to report it, we're aware. Thanks.