Default WP Gallery Styling, Captions Under Thumbnails

[Kent]

I've set up a default WP gallery on my page here: http://www.kentfackenthall.com/book-design/covers/

I'd like for the captions to not appear under the thumbnails, but I'm having a hard time determining where this is styled. Is this a Minimum theme thing, a Genesis thing, or a WordPress thing.

And yes Andrea, I used the code inspector to see the gallery_caption code, but I can't find that in my stylesheet for the theme anywhere. 🙂

For the record, I just upgraded to WP 3.5 today as well. And I gotta say, the WP Codex is really ambiguous about the default galleries, focusing more on plugins - at least what I found.

-Kent

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[ramseyp]

Kent,

WordPress's post galleries output as an HTML Definition List. Each image is a DT element (tag) and the caption is a DD element, which comes after the DT. To change this, you'll want to insert your gallery on the page / post, switch to HTML view, and then edit the gallery shortcode you'll see there.

The reference for this is here, in the WordPress Codex: Gallery Shortcode. Scroll down to the line that reads, "Some advanced options are:"

You can change the tags for each gallery item, the image, and the captions. For example (without the dash and the space next to each square-bracket):
[- gallery itemtag="div" icontag="span" captiontag="p" -]

That would output the gallery as a series of divs, with the image in a span tag and each caption in a paragraph tag. Depending on how you want to design your gallery will determine the correct HTML and then the necessary CSS.

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