[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12235: Display caption with the_post_thumbnail

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#12235: Display caption with the_post_thumbnail
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 Reporter:  hd-J             |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Post Thumbnails  |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch      |     Focuses:
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Changes (by flixos90):

 * keywords:   => needs-patch


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:15 johnbillion]:
 > I don't believe there's need for a new argument for this function at
 all. You have much more control over the output by outputting the caption
 yourself in your template file. Should we add arguments for every field?
 (caption, title, description).
 >
 > We could probably add some new template tags to help with this (I have
 some that I use in my theme framework) but extra arguments for
 `the_post_thumbnail()` isn't the way to go.

 I agree with this approach. Showing the featured image caption is a very
 specific need which should not be supported directly by
 `the_post_thumbnail()`, other image functions do not include a caption
 either.

 However a new template tag for this could be valuable. Maybe we should
 first add a general function like `wp_get_image_caption()` to get the
 caption for an image, outsourcing code from the `img_caption_shortcode()`
 function (for the `wp_caption` shortcode) and calling the function from
 there instead. We could then use that new function by a possible
 `get_post_thumbnail_caption()`.

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