Every image in the Media Library can have a title, a caption and a description. Gutenslider can show one of them on the slide, so you type it once and it appears wherever the image is used. (Updated for Gutenslider 7.0.)
1. Fill in the Media Library
Open Media → Library, click an image and fill in its Caption (or title, or description). Photographers who caption their uploads anyway get the captions for free.
2. Turn captions on for a slide
- Make sure the slider uses changing content (captions belong to single slides).
- Select a slide.
- In its settings, choose what the automatic caption shows: title, caption, description, or a combination.
- Set the slide’s content position to place the caption, for example bottom left.
3. All slides at once (Pro)
With Gutenslider Pro you set the caption format and the content position on the slider itself, and every slide follows. That is bulk editing: handy for a slider with twenty photos.
Captions with more than text
An automatic caption is plain text. For a caption with a link or a button, add blocks to the slide instead: a paragraph, a heading, a button. You can mix both.
Styling captions
Automatic captions take your theme’s text styles. For a background behind the text, add CSS, scoped to the slider:
.wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslider .slide-content {
background: rgb(0 0 0 / 55%);
color: #fff;
padding: 0.5rem 0.9rem;
border-radius: 8px;
}More in Custom CSS recipes.
Photo credits
Many free photo sites ask for an attribution. Put it in the image’s caption field and turn on automatic captions, and the credit shows on the slide.