In regards to my previous question about shortcode captions, it doesn’t appear to me that the actual text of a caption is stored anywhere other than in the post content within the shortcode itself.
I would have thought that wp_get_attachment_metadata
would store the info for an attachment, but it doesn’t.
Am I wrong? Or does WordPress not store the actual caption anywhere?
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Yes, it stores the caption in it’s own place in the DB. I can’t quote the exact location but in WordPress, “Attachments” are a post type and it stores each attachment just like a post. For an attachment post type, it treats the Image Caption as the_excerpt
the Image Description as the_content
and the Image Title as… the_title
.