[wp-hackers] How to remove captions on the homepage

[Lynne Pope]

If you find the answer Alex, please post it. I am manually adding captions
and not using the WP captions for this very reason. I decided not to hide
them on the frontpage thru CSS because of concerns that search engines may
treat this as hidden text and penalise the sites.

Lynne

2009/1/15 Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at googlemail.com>

> > You  could use CSS to hyde the captions though they would still be
> > there in the html output.
> Thanks Mike, I'm doing that at the moment and although it works it means
> the
> HTML is all cluttered when it shouldn't be. Also, won't be very nice with
> CSS disabled or screenreaders etc.
>
> Any other options people know of?
>
> -- Alex
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Mike Little <mike at zed1.com> wrote:
>
> > 2009/1/14 Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at googlemail.com>:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'm trying to remove the [caption] shortcode stuff from any articles on
> > the
> > > homepage, so that
> > > the <div class="wp-caption"> and all that it contains is not outputted
> > > on the homepage.
> > >
> > > I've seen this filter that can be used, and in my functions.php have
> the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > if (is_home()) {
> > > add_filter('disable_captions', create_function('$a','return true;'));
> > > };
> > >
> > > But that doesn't make any difference. Is there any way I can achieve
> > this?
> > >
> >
> > I believe that filter only prevents the captions being created in the
> > admin screens.
> >
> > You  could use CSS to hyde the captions though they would still be
> > there in the html output.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Mike Little
> > http://zed1.com/
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