Display meta.description not meta.alt-text

[jeremycherfas]

Very useful plugin. I added yaml meta files as suggested, but the full-size image displays the contents of meta.alt-text, when I think it should display meta.description.

Alt is correct in the HTML, so I do not just want to switch them.

[flpommeton]

I have tried everything to get either the alt_text or the description to display. I cannot get either to display. I am just getting <img alt="" data-description="" . .

Can you show an example of your meta.yaml file for me?

Here is what I have so far:

---
meta.alt-text="At the Getty"
meta.alt_text="At the Getty Underscore"
meta.description="A Painting at the Getty - One of my favourites"
---

Thanks for any help.

[jeremycherfas]

This is in the file 01.jpg.meta.yaml

alt_text: Library of Congress entrace hall
description: The entrance hall with the big mosaic at the top of the stairs

You see the result here https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/library-of-congress -- complete with spelling mistake that I just noticed :)

[flpommeton]

That worked (and here I thought that I had tried all possibilities). As an FYI when I put the info in the .yaml correctly both the alt_text and the description are displayed. Must be a recent update.

Thanks for your help.

[jeremycherfas]

Good to know. I guess I need to update.

[flpommeton]

Just figured out that in my many different attempts to turn on the description I had provided a replacement in mytheme for gallery.html.twig: Contents:

<div class="modular-row gallery-container {{ page.header.class }}">
	{{ unite_gallery(page.media.images, '{
    "gallery_theme":"tiles","tiles_type":"justified", "lightbox_show_textpanel": true, "lightbox_textpanel_enable_description": true}') }}
</div>

Once I got the meta data right it started actually doing something.

[jeremycherfas]

Because I have galleries on ordinary blog posts, not on modular pages, I was using only the inbuilt template, with

unitegallery:
    gallery_theme: tiles
    assets_in_meta: true

Now I think I am going to have to make a specific gallery template for posts where I know want a gallery.

Later: In the end I used what you had done to change the call to the gallery within the post; much simpler, and I can save that as a snippet and use it whenever needed.