Kings Caption Hover is a WordPress app, with a 3.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Kings Caption Hover is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Saif. With a rating of 3.0★ from 2 reviews.
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Kings Caption Hover is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 2 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Saif — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.0★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Kings Caption Hover works
This plugin will add multiple awesome responsive hover effects for the captions of your portfolio/ gallery items in your WordPress site using shortcodes and custom post.
Usage:
Here’s a step by step user manual:
Install the plugin. (Find the instructions in the “Installation” section.)
Find the custom post “Hover Captions” in your WordPress dashboard and click on it’s submenu: Add New.
Put the title of the item in the “Title” field of the post. Write your description in the content box. Add the image in the “featured image” box (preferred image size: 400px width and 300px height). You can add the author’s name or a sub heading too, by adding a custom field named “author”.
Use the following shortcode to show all your hover effect portfolio items/gallery items anywhere in your WordPress site.
[caption-hover]
5. You can control how many items to be shown by using the “show” attribute of our shortcode. By default, it shows all the items. Example:
[caption-hover show="5"]
6. You can categorize the items by using the “category” attribute of our shortcode. (Make sure you type the category name exactly the same in the shortcode, including caps and spaces.) By default, it shows all the items. Example:
[caption-hover category="fish"]
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Frequently asked questions
What is Kings Caption Hover?
Kings Caption Hover is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.0-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Saif.