Recently I’ve found myself with a problem in Wordpress. I’ve got a custom query going on which also uses a query to retrieve image attachments related to each post. I also needed to get additional information for the attachments. Strangely wp_get_attachment_metadata doesn’t return additional information such as caption or description, only the meta information like shutter speed and ISO settings.

Here’s how I managed to get around that problem.

$Images = & get_children ( ‘post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image&post_parent=’ . $postID );

foreach ( $Images as $Image ) {
$NewImagesArray [] = $Image;
}

Keys = array ();

foreach ( $NewImages as $NewImage ) {
$Keys [] = $NewImage->ID;
$Captions [] = $NewImage->post_excerpt;
$Descriptions [] = $NewImage->post_content;
}