Hide image description from Lightbox

JDGS

Hello everyone,

I would like to hide the image description in the lightbox (from all my images). Is that possible? Will it affect SEO?
Thank you so much.
My website: www.danielsantosphoto.com

Daniel Santos

Hikin' Mike

@JDGS said:

I would like to hide the image description in the lightbox (from all my images). Is that possible?

Add this to your theme's custom CSS:

.sm-user-ui .sm-lightbox-caption {
    display: none;
    }

@JDGS said:

Will it affect SEO?

Google likes text. With that said, I personally think the lightbox images isn't going to affect your SEO good or bad.

sdb

@Hikin' Mike said:

@JDGS said:

Will it affect SEO?

Google likes text. With that said, I personally think the lightbox images isn't going to affect your SEO good or bad.

Hi Mike and Daniel, as far as I know from SM support, hiding title/caption/keywords from the lightbox will also affect, negatively, SEO.
The only reason I keep caption (which corresponds to Alt text, important for images) and keywords in the lightbox.
Personally, I hope that in the new lightbox version you can have the possibility to insert Alt text in a separate box (apart from the caption box) without having to be displayed. Also because captions are texts written to be read, while Alt text is structured differently.

leftquark

There are no plans to offer the option to customize the alt text at this time. We can keep it in mind as a feature request though!

sdb

@leftquark said:
There are no plans to offer the option to customize the alt text at this time. We can keep it in mind as a feature request though!

Ok, thank you Aaron. Is there a request already, or do I have to insert it in the appropriate section?

JDGS

Thank you everyone for the help! I will contact SM support and see what they say