Add Theme Support for HTML 5 Figures and Figcaptions to WordPress Images

April 21, 2014 9:02pm

Finally, WP has caught up to HTML5 when inserting images and galleries. Previously, images with captions were contained in <div> tags with the caption in a normal <p> tag.

Now you can get them all modern and semantic and awesome and stuff.

Just add this to your theme’s function.php file:

The array bit there handles which types of elements should get HTML5. So if you’re just looking for galleries, and captions, delete the other items. Like this:

Note that if you’re not developing a theme, just modifying something existing, you’ll need to do some CSS updating, too. This article, and the comments section, won’t cover how to do that as every theme is different.

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