Use of `wp-caption-text` class on captions

[NateWr]

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Hi Justin, I've been looking at using the WP Featherlight plugin in conjuction with Cleaner Gallery.

WP Featherlight selects the caption for display with the wp-caption-text class. Cleaner Gallery doesn't include this class. It only uses the gallery-caption class and it's not filterable.

Core uses both and re-uses wp-caption-text for it's caption shortcode, which I did not know existed until just now.

I'll give Rob Nue (behind WP Featherlight) a heads up about this as well. But on looking into this I think it's appropriate for the <figcaption> to have the wp-caption-text class.

I wondered what you thought about adding this class or just making the caption class filterable like the image classes.

[justintadlock]

I was against core adding this class to galleries. It actually broke quite a number of theme designs when they added it (previously, it was only added to the caption shortcode). So, I almost consider it a feature at this point.

Given how long its been, it might be safe to make the change. I'll want to test it with my themes though.

[NateWr]

Thanks Justin, that makes sense and I can see the conflict. In this case, it was fairly easy to strip out the key features of Cleaner Gallery for use in my theme, so it's not a critical issue for me. The improved markup in core is a lot better than the old stuff when this was a lot more necessary. :)