Handle WordPress [caption] tags

[ianrenton]

WordPress pages use a square-bracketed format for describing image captions in the editor markup, which is then converted to a div when WordPress renders the page.

Because exitwp/html2text sees the markup and doesn't understand it, this makes it through to the markdown output as text that wraps around the image markdown and must be manually removed.

I realise there is no standard markdown for an image caption, but could the script do something a bit nicer than just leaving the [caption] blocks where they are? (e.g. remove them entirely, put the caption in as a new paragraph, etc.) Not an ideal solution, but I don't think there is an ideal solution.

[THPubs]

This is a big problem. I can't figure out how to get rid of captions.. I can't edit manually because I have nearly 1600 posts!

[gpoo]

To remove the captions, you can add a regular expression in config.yaml. Something like:

body_replace: {
  '\[caption.*caption="(.*)"\](.*)\[\/caption\]': '\2',
}

Notice I used 2 backreferences, in case you want to use the text in the caption (i.e. \1). You can tweak the regular expression to your own needs.