License
This plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.
System requirements
EasyImageCaption requires PHP 5.2+ and Joomla! 1.5. Unfortunately the plugin does not work in Mozilla Firefox 1* and 2* anymore (since v0.49beta1). But that is not my fault, it is Mozilla's… 
Language files included: 
* Firefox 1 and 2 are not officially supported by Mozilla anymore.
Download EasyImageCaption (v0.49beta3)
Please report any bugs.
Version history
The current version has been labeled "beta" because of the numerous modifications (not sure if I did enough testing). However, since the plugin only affects the output of a website and does not change any data, it can be considered "safe". Just uninstall or deactivate it, if some bug messes up your layout. And please tell me about it. Version 0.3 is still available.
EasyImageCaption v0.49beta3 [2010-03-24] Current version
- Spanish language file added, thanks to Carlos from www.gnumla.com
EasyImageCaption v0.49beta2 [2010-03-12]
- Fixed bug "Call to undefined function JCEToolTipFix()" when using the TITLE tag for captions.
EasyImageCaption v0.49beta1 [2010-03-04]
- Important parts of code rewritten. The new HTML structure (with SPAN elements rather than DIV elements) provides enhanced handling of images within paragraphs without losing HTML validity. This fixed some major bugs (e.g. doubling of images, alignment problems).
If you have been using previous versions of EasyImageCaption with external CSS for caption styling, you will have to change the CSS to match the new HTML structure! Parameters have also changed. - New "apply to" and "except" parameters: giving you better control of when captions are generated; default can be "apply to all images" or "apply to none".
- Images in section and category descriptions (shown at top of a blog view for instance) are "captionized", too.
- New parameter: possibility to hide captions on frontpage and/or in blog view.
- New parameter: define the minimum size of images to get captions; that keeps small buttons and icons "caption-free".
- New parameter: copy the image's CSS classes to the new surrounding picture box (container).
- New parameter: choose whether to place the caption below or above the image.
- Added some new style parameters for better margin control.
- Added support for special "formatting tags" (similar to BBCode) that will be converted into HTML tags when showing the captions.
- Added JCE tooltip fix, that deletes a double colon (inserted by JCE as control characters for its tooltip function) at the end of the caption string.
- Added support for Simple Image Gallery by adding the respective css classes as defaults to the "except classes" parameter.
- Added support for !JoomlaComment by adding the respective css id as default to the "except ids" parameter.
EasyImageCaption v0.3 [2009-08-05]
Download EasyImageCaption 0.3 (buggy!)
- Enhanced the "Ignore classes" parameter: images will also be ignored, if one of the classes set is assigned to a superior HTML element. This will help users to easily disable EasyImageCaption when experiencing compatibility problems with other plugins.
- Removed compatibility with Very Simple Image Gallery plugin from source code and added the gallery plugin's CSS class to the new "Ignore classes" parameter as default instead.
- Added further "ignore classes" as default for compatibility with The Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin.
- Added compatibilty with JUMultithumb plugin.
EasyImageCaption v0.2 [2009-07-30]
- Added options to ignore certain articles, articles of certain sections or articles of certain categories
- Added basic style settings to parameters
(is enabled by default, but can be turned off, if you prefer to use the template's CSS file for styling) - Added compatibility with JoomGallery's JoomPlu plugin
(JoomPlu's alignment parameter is recognized; width of caption div can be set separately) - Added compatibility with Very Simple Image Gallery plugin
(EasyImageCaption is automatically disabled within this plugin since it has its own caption function) - Added multi-language support with English and German language files for backend
- Enhanced calculation of the width of the DIV container (this fixed a rare problem)
EasyImageCaption v0.1 [2009-06-29]
- First release