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Posted by Jack Beilby
Jack Beilby
508 Points

Captions for thumbnail navigation in Flexslider

Hi there,

So I enabled the thumbnail navigation on my Flexslider with the 

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('.flexslider').flexslider({

    controlNav: "thumbnails",

    });
});

Then adding the attribute 

<li data-thumb="<?php the_field( 'homepage_slider_image' ); ?>

This gets the thumbnails showing up fine, but they're being automatically generated by flexslider.

I was wondering if anyone knew how you might add captions to the thumbnails? I cant seem to find anything in the flexslider documentation.

Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I think you're going to have to do this custom. However you are generating your list of images for your slider, you should be able to have some sort of field, meta box, or excerpt box that would allow you to type in your caption, and than your HTML add the additional HTML with the correct PHP scripts to pull in the unique caption for that image, and than format that caption in your CSS.

That should work.