Skip to content

Media: Clarify caption field labels for images and videos#11634

Open
himanshupathak95 wants to merge 3 commits intoWordPress:trunkfrom
himanshupathak95:fix/43178
Open

Media: Clarify caption field labels for images and videos#11634
himanshupathak95 wants to merge 3 commits intoWordPress:trunkfrom
himanshupathak95:fix/43178

Conversation

@himanshupathak95
Copy link
Copy Markdown

@himanshupathak95 himanshupathak95 commented Apr 23, 2026

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43178

Fixes the ambiguity of the "Caption" label in media attachment fields by rendering a context-aware label based on media type.

  • Images display Image Caption, aligning with the established photography term.
  • Videos display Video Description, avoiding the broadcast-industry meaning of "caption" (i.e. subtitle/SRT tracks).
  • All other media types (audio, documents, etc.) retain the existing Caption label.
Before After
Screenshot 2026-04-23 at 21 09 05 Screenshot 2026-04-23 at 21 08 34
Screenshot 2026-04-23 at 21 08 56 Screenshot 2026-04-23 at 21 08 23

@github-actions
Copy link
Copy Markdown

Test using WordPress Playground

The changes in this pull request can previewed and tested using a WordPress Playground instance.

WordPress Playground is an experimental project that creates a full WordPress instance entirely within the browser.

Some things to be aware of

  • All changes will be lost when closing a tab with a Playground instance.
  • All changes will be lost when refreshing the page.
  • A fresh instance is created each time the link below is clicked.
  • Every time this pull request is updated, a new ZIP file containing all changes is created. If changes are not reflected in the Playground instance,
    it's possible that the most recent build failed, or has not completed. Check the list of workflow runs to be sure.

For more details about these limitations and more, check out the Limitations page in the WordPress Playground documentation.

Test this pull request with WordPress Playground.

@himanshupathak95 himanshupathak95 marked this pull request as ready for review April 24, 2026 19:15
@github-actions
Copy link
Copy Markdown

github-actions Bot commented Apr 24, 2026

The following accounts have interacted with this PR and/or linked issues. I will continue to update these lists as activity occurs. You can also manually ask me to refresh this list by adding the props-bot label.

Core Committers: Use this line as a base for the props when committing in SVN:

Props abcd95, apermo.

To understand the WordPress project's expectations around crediting contributors, please review the Contributor Attribution page in the Core Handbook.

Comment thread src/wp-admin/includes/media.php
Comment thread src/wp-includes/media-template.php
Comment thread src/wp-includes/media-template.php
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants