EasyImageCaption
Version
0.51 (last update on Apr 5, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
57
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
79033
Date Added
22 July 2009
Uses 1.6 Updater?
- Yes
The EasyImageCaption plugin generates captions from images' TITLE or ALT tags in articles and displays them below (or above) the images.
It has been developed as an alternative to Joomla!'s built-in javascript caption solution as well as to the JCE editor's caption plugin.
HOW IT WORKS
Before displaying a website the EasyImageCaption plugin searches the article text for images. It then takes the content of an image's ALT or TITLE tag (depending on your plugin settings) to use it as the image's caption. You may restrict the "captionizing" to certain articles or certain images through the plugin's parameters.
The behaviour is very similar to Joomla!'s built-in caption solution, but it does not use any javascript.
REQUIREMENTS
EasyImageCaption requires PHP 5.2+ and Joomla! 1.5+. A version for Joomla 1.6+ is available, too.
Reviews are welcome.
Please use this forum thread to post bugs or feature requests: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=473&t=424168
Look at the download page for the version history.
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This plugin is fantastic! It is simple to use and lets you choose either the Alt-Text or the Title field for the display. While it would be great if it showed the text within the editor, that isn't how a plugin works most of the time with joomla. Now instead of needing to embed a module with some custom HTML, I can just load my pictures and normal and have all the styling I need.
When I initially installed the plugin, I couldn't get it to work. I then emailed Thomas who explained that the plugin only worked with regular article content, not in the modules that I needed it to work in.
He then took it upon himself to make the changes that I needed for me! He is fabulous and his service is fabulous!
Thank you for your help Thomas! :)
He then took it upon himself to make the changes that I needed for me! He is fabulous and his service is fabulous!
Thank you for your help Thomas! :)
Installed it, and literally within seconds it was up and running! And, you get to choose whether to automatically create captions for images already published or not, other variables, I love it, easy, looks nice, great plug in.
Works perfect, easy config and looks great online.
As a newspaper journalist by training, I really missed a convenient possibility to add captions to pictures in my various Joomla sites.
This solution comes with everything I desire: Easy to install, easy to adjust, easy to use!
It will become one of my top-10-extensions I use on all my sites. Thank you for the great job!
This solution comes with everything I desire: Easy to install, easy to adjust, easy to use!
It will become one of my top-10-extensions I use on all my sites. Thank you for the great job!
I'd like to express my thanks like this: Great work, easy to understand, highly customizable, worked out for me in 30 secs. This thing saves a lot of clicks!
Exactly what I needed. Thanks :)
Very easy to install and configure. The support is good, also. I am using it on a racing cars website and it made my articles more professional and eye catching. The plugin can be configured both by experienced and basic users, but if you have any doubt on how to do anything, just use the author's forum and you will be answered.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
I love it when an extension is simple and just works without fuzz. It has plenty of styling options for the text and it saved me from doing a lot of work. Thanks for this one!
As I didn't want to use the original joomla-captioning with javascript, i came to use JCE-captioning. While it does a good job, it's quite extensive to use for multiple pictures. So I was looking for an easier way to create captions.
Fully configurable by css-classes I got EasyImageCaption to work and look like my old captions in only a few minutes. Simply a great plugin!
Fully configurable by css-classes I got EasyImageCaption to work and look like my old captions in only a few minutes. Simply a great plugin!
works very well but joomla show some warnings
Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in plugins\content\easyimagecaption.php on line 89 on line 92,95,101,104,121
its little annoying
Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in plugins\content\easyimagecaption.php on line 89 on line 92,95,101,104,121
its little annoying
Owner's reply
Thanks for your review.
It looks like "split()" is deprecated since PHP 5.3. I haven't come across these warnings yet, because I'm still using 5.2. Will get rid of this function.
good idea but I could give it 5 stars if it contains the option of mouse over not just below and over the image
Owner's reply
Well, but this isn't a mouse-over plugin. The purpose of EasyImageCaption is to show captions below (or above) images. That's what it was made for, so I don't regard mouse-over as a missing feature.
It sounds interesting though... ;-)
I am putting together a complex news site for a client and was looking for a simple method to handle captions. This plugin did the trick. I don't care what others are saying - this is a well thought-out, feature/option-rich plugin.
For the author, I would submit a request to add the ability to adjust padding for the whole image box, as well as border settings - I had to modify the CSS for that.
For everyone complaining - don't blame this author because other components aren't compatible! My advice? Lose the other ones!!
For the author, I would submit a request to add the ability to adjust padding for the whole image box, as well as border settings - I had to modify the CSS for that.
For everyone complaining - don't blame this author because other components aren't compatible! My advice? Lose the other ones!!
I have tried the plugin on several of my Joomla (1.5.10) sites, that also use the JCE plugin. But the problem was, the numerous old captions were not handled correctly. Even though I activated that existing captions should be left untouched, they still were displayed. So on many, many articles in my site, I had two captions underneath each picture. So this plugin for me was no good.
Owner's reply
Sorry, I was not aware of that problem. The feature did work, but there have been a lot of changes to the code since the initial release. So I might have messed that up. Will look into it.
Do not work with the plugin Superblogger JoomlaWorks.
Owner's reply
The problem you described in your forum post and your e-mail is NO EasyImageCaption error. It works as expected. The root of the problem is not an error at all, but lies in the way SuperBlogger handles images.
Therefor I consider this poor review as unjustified.
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