Style wordpress image captions in RSS

Question

My WordPress site includes the full article in its RSS feed. This includes the text of the post and basic formatting. It also includes post images and their captions.

The problem is that my captions are not formatted. They appear below my images, but they look like plain text. This makes it hard for a reader to see that they are associated with the preceding image.

How can I change the formatting of the image captions in an RSS feed reader? I'd like to make the captions italic or to use a gray color to distinguish it from the other text.

Answer 1

As far as I know the only way to add styles to RSS feed items is by adding them inline (e.g. <p style="color: #333; font-weight: bold;">Hello World</p>). If you don't specify any styling, then the reader app/website that the end-user is using applies its default styles.

Certainly editing styles.css won't make any difference, because that files only styles your website, not the RSS feed.

So the only way I can think of would be to add a filter to the_content, check if it's a feed using the is_feed conditional, then use regular expressions to add styles inline.

Answer 2

Have you tried adding:

.wp-caption {
   (your styles)
}

to style.php?

Answer 3

It is the file style.css. You can use the classes left, right and center to avoid text beside the image. Because images a normally defined as inline.