wagtailimagecaptions 0.1.1

A Django app for extending the Wagtail Image model to add captions and alt fields as

Captions for Wagtail Images

A Django app for extending the Wagtail Image model to add captions and alt fields as well as the extraction of IPTC image meta data.

Installing

Settings

In your settings file, add wagtailmedia to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "wagtailimagecaptions",
    # ...
]

You will also need to set a custom Image model in your setting files:

# settings.py
WAGTAILIMAGES_IMAGE_MODEL = "wagtailimagecaptions.CaptionedImage"

How to Use

The custom Image model, CaptionedImage, adds four new fields to the Wagtail Image model: alt, caption, credit, iptc_data. When a new image is uploaded via Wagtail's media library, the app will attempt to extract any IPTC meta data found in the file and fill the alt, caption and credit fields. All IPTC meta data extracted is also stored in iptc_data.

Example use in a template:

<img src="{{ image.url }}" alt="{{ image.alt }}"><p>{{ image.caption }}</p>