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In my theme I want to display the featured image, but I also want to display the title attribute (of the image, not of the post/page) beside the image itself.

Is there a simple way to do this? Where should I be looking?

Thanks, John.

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    Can you mark your question as answered since you found the solution. You can answer your own question. This removes it from the unanswered list. – xLRDxREVENGEx May 20 '11 at 17:54
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post_excerpt is actually the caption attribute. Here is the correct answer:

$title = get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_title; //The Title
$caption = get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_excerpt; //The Caption
$description = get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_content; // The Description
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    This is an accurate answer and must be upvoted. – gurung Apr 20 '14 at 15:05
  • Dear god my eyes are bleeding. Sadly that's the right answer, in Wordpress everything and their mother is a post. – marek.m Apr 29 '19 at 12:52
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Easy!

<?php the_post_thumbnail();
echo get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_excerpt; ?>

Taken from: http://www.billerickson.net/wordpress-featured-image-captions/

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Since WordPress 4.6 there are new functions for the post thumbnail caption

Get caption text: (Doc link)

// return the caption text without any html markup
get_the_post_thumbnail_caption();

Output caption text: (Doc link)

// echo the caption text without any html markup
the_post_thumbnail_caption();

You can add a specific post as object or id as parameter. Without (like shown above) WordPress uses the current post.

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