Tumblr won't show captions - even on permalink page?

[Amy]

Is it my theme or something to do with HTML? Is there any way i can get it to show captions (preferably just on peralink pages) with out changing themes?

thanks

[Stone]

Easiest to change themes.

You could go to the tumblr customizing page and copy the bits needed...
http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_themes

I've gotten snippets from that page, but figuring out how to use them... can be tricky...

Scrolling down the page to the relevant section... we find this bit of coding:

{block:Photoset}
{block:Photos}
<img src="{PhotoURL-500}"
width="{PhotoWidth-500}"height="{PhotoHeight-500}" />

{block:Caption}
{Caption}
{/block:Caption}

{block:Exif}
<ul>...</ul>
{/block:Exif}
{/block:Photos}

{block:Caption}
{Caption}
{/block:Caption}
{/block:Photoset}


Looks like the part you need... is this:

{block:Caption}
{Caption}
{/block:Caption}

Experiment with adding the caption code to the photo section of your html... see if you can't get it to work.