Image caption functionality removed

[imagicuus]

Is it true that the admin functionality to add an image title and caption are removed in prestashop 1.5? And so, why? I can't find the settings anymore, the field 'legend' still exists in the database though. So on the product page I can't get the right alt tag for product images and the sitemap.xml shows something like this, thus without all the additional information about the images:

 

<url>
<loc>
http://zwembrilletjes.eu/en/index.php?id_product=24&controller=product&id_lang=1
</loc>
<priority>0.6</priority>
<lastmod>2012-11-06</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://zwembrilletjes.eu/59/phantom-tint.jpg</image:loc>
<image:caption/>
<image:title/>
</image:image>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://zwembrilletjes.eu/62/phantom-tint.jpg</image:loc>
<image:caption/>
<image:title/>
</image:image>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://zwembrilletjes.eu/60/phantom-tint.jpg</image:loc>
<image:caption/>
<image:title/>
</image:image>
</url>

 

Also if I search on google for images on my domein there isn't a nice description. The description is like "Newsletter" or "Show full size".

 

Can somebody enlight me on this problem.

[yaniv14]

Just add it to the TPL manually.

[imagicuus]

You mean to mannully add it to the database with phpMyAdmin for example? But I am wondering why the feature is removed in the first place

[yaniv14]

No, I meant something else.

I thought you are not getting any ALT tags for your images, it happen to me with a customized template that I had to edit.

btw I don't see any problem with your images in google search regardless the sitemap.xml, the images are being found by the exact name.

[imagicuus]

Thank you for taking a look. I think it's working fine now, because I edited the template to use the product name, category name and product color to compose the alt tag of the image.

 

But I still think it's weird to remove a feature in the admin which is still used in the template files.

[moy2010]

Hi, imagicuus. Could you please share the code that you used to compose the alt tag of the image? I would really appreciate it since I'm having the same problems with PS 1.5.2.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

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[tgv]

I believe the best you can do to alert developers is to register and vote for this issue in the bug tracker: http://forge.prestashop.com/browse/PSCFV-5418

 

Inside,

- the database "images" table still has the "legend" column that keeps captions;

- the model is dumbed down so it doesn't handle captions any more -- that's more or less easily fixable using overrides;

- but the corresponding back-end template is now a terrible mess that doesn't have a room for captions -- it's all nice and AJAXy instead.

[manaros]

Hi,

 

Anyone have a solution or workaround for this issue , I'm stumped and need the image captions to identify color variations of the products.

Thx

 

Manaros

[wrequine]

I too, am in need of this function. Has anyone found a way to restore the capability to add image captions in the back office?

[Basobaso]

I developed a simple module for this. Anyone interested (for small donation) ?

[YvonneM]

I developed a simple module for this. Anyone interested (for small donation) ?

I'm intrested!