Photo Captions

I would recommend you to provide a "description" when you upload an image and then to grab it on your templates using the tag: <$mt:AssetDescription$>

Thanks Mihai, I'm working with tferrick. That would work if we were hard-wiring something into the templates. Unfortunately we want to use the "Insert Image" button on the entries to put in Asset images. There's no obvious way to have the insert also include the AssetDescription field.

I ran across a relatively ancient MT thread where it was suggested that one could hack the file in /lib/MT/Asset/Image.pm but that file's a lot different now and I didn't seen any place to add the AssetDescription.

Really all we'd want is for Insert Image to create somethink like:

AssetTitle: Asset Description.

I could use CSS to align it and make the text act as a description. But how to do this? Hmm.

Meh, the code didn't go through. I meant:

<div class="imageinsert">
<img src="AssetURL" alt="AssetTitle">
<p>AssetTitle: AssetDescription</p>
</div>

I am wondering the exact same thing. I to have been strugelling with this issue and wonder if this plugin might help. Custom Asset Markup plugin for Movable Type By using this plugin I wonder if you would be able to take Mihai Bocsaru suggestion and change the way that Movable type actually plugs in the image to the entry. My thought was to have MT evey time you insert an image then grab the and put it under the image wrapped with specific css. That would then allow you to have Photo Captions and not worry about hacking the core files. I will give it a try and see if it happens. But if anyone out there has any suggestions please let me know we need this to work.

I've been struggling with this for some time.

jgrossman, you're right -- Custom Asset Insertion Markup is probably the best way to go. I've used that with MT 4.2 and it works well. It provides "mini-templates" for each type of image (e.g. plain images, images with popups, thumbnail images...)

My problem with it is that if you change the CAIM template, you won't see the affects on (for example) your custom-field images until you reinsert the image. Each and every one! For images inserted into stories, you may only have to re-publish every story, but I think you have to reinsert the images.

Assetylene is another plugin that does about the same thing as CAIM, but I had further problems with Assetylene -- while it did everything it was supposed to do, I found it harder to work with.

I'm still looking for a way to do this without these plugins. I need the ability to modify the templates without having to go and reinsert images every time!

Martin, I would **love** to know if editing Image.pm would work.

I don't currently have access to update this file -- I may not be alone in using this server! But if you wish to experiment (i.e. be the guinea pig), try replacing your Image.pm with this one
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYCFWAIYpMcKZGRtM2JzbnpfNGM5cm40bWQ4&hl=en

Tell me if it works, almost works, or blows up in your face & takes down your entire system.

Back up your old copy, of course. You can see what changes I made by comparing with the old one; I didn't do anything very fancy.