[vonnagy]

Hi Andrii,
Thanks for this suggestion. I had a look this, but I am a bit puzzled:

1. I have a installed the plugin “WP Media Gallery” added a gallery with the photos. These all have captions.
2. On my homepage, for ‘Choose header for this page’ I’ve selected Background Slider
3. Here is where the problem is: for “Background Slider/Image Source of Images” i select “WP Media Gallery” and update the page it remains on none. It says “Images from the WP Media Gallery attached to this post/page will be used.” I am not sure how to attached the “WP Media Gallery” to the page? Click on “Add Media” for the page doesn’t include my new “WP Media Gallery” images.

Could you point me in the right direction?

[vonnagy]

Hi Andrii,

Thanks so much for the response. I got it to work, but unfortunately not the captions:

I used wp-content/supersized-slides as default directory. In Appearance -> Background Image/Slider Options: Slide Caption is ticked with this description:

>Captions for images from your default or custom directories are extracted from the IPTC caption field of each image.
>Captions for NextGEN Gallery images are taken from the Description field. If not filled in, the Alt&Title field will be used.
>Captions for WordPress Media Gallery images are taken from the Caption field. If not filled in, the image title (filename) will >be used.

I’ve added metadata for the default gallery images; I couldn’t get these captions to appear under default gallery. I’ve installed the NextGen Gallery, but the images never load in the background -just grey background and spinning loading icon.

Is there a step I am missing to get the captions in background slider?

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