[Resolved] Caption from post shows in different view excerpt

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[bryanC-2]

I am trying to: get rid of caption from other view that is in excerpt on the home page of a list of posts

I visited this URL: local host

I expected to see: no caption

Instead, I got: Get caption

Created video here to explain in detail. hidden link

Thanks
Bryan

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

The video file you shared here is not working at this end. Could you please try to resend it or explain in detail what's your issue and where and what you want to display at which place? Few screenshots will be helpful to understand your issue.

[bryanC-2]

I'm sorry please try this one hidden link

[bryanC-2]

Here are the views if needed "news" is the front page view.

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[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Well - I need to check on your install why its displaying caption with post description. This must be related to CSS issue but to ensure that:

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[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Thank you for sharing access details.

Well - I do see the caption under the image:
hidden link

Am I missing anything here. Could you please describe where exactly you would like to display the image caption?

[bryanC-2]

What is happening is that the individual post image caption on the single post itself is showing up on the homepage under the latest posts view (news) at the beginning of the excerpt for that post.

I added images to explain.

i hope that makes it clearer

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Ahh - I can see now.

Well - its default behaviour from WordPress. Please check following Doc:
=> https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/
[ Section "More information"]

In last paragraph there is a note about this:

Note: If the current post is an attachment, such as in the attachment.php and image.php template loops, then the attachment caption is displayed. Captions do not include the "[…]" text.

[bryanC-2]

I still haven't closed this yet because i haven't figured quite yet how to fix this. I've found a couple snippets to make adjustments in the functions.php file but nothing has quite worked yet. I'm optimistic on fixing this but still investigating. Any additional tips are are welcome.

Thanks
Bryan

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

You may try to wrap you caption with DIV and use CSS to show/hide the caption.

[bryanC-2]

I figured it out. I put this code in my functions.php file resolved my issue. It is specific to views. Might be worth posting on an FAQ or something.

//* This fixes the issue where the individual post image caption show up on excerpts
add_filter('wpv_filter_post_excerpt', 'my_caption_func');
function my_caption_func($excerpt){
return $excerpt = preg_replace('#([[]caption)(.*)([[]/caption[]])#e', '', $excerpt);
}