How to display feature image's alt text below itself on article template (debut theme)

Topic summary

  • Goal: Show the alt text of a blog’s featured image directly beneath the image in the Shopify Debut theme, presumably by editing the article template (article-template section).

  • Context: The original poster references a screenshot to illustrate the desired placement of the alt text under the featured image. No code or implementation details are provided.

  • Terminology: “Alt text” (alternative text) is a short textual description of an image used for accessibility (screen readers) and can aid SEO.

  • Participation: Another member follows up asking if a solution was found and indicates they need the same output (displaying image alt text as on-page text under the image).

  • Status/Outcome: No solution, code snippet, or confirmed approach has been shared. The thread remains open and unresolved with a shared interest in how to implement this in the Debut theme’s article template.

Summarized with AI on January 31. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi Shopify Community,

I would like to display the alt text of the feature image of the blog. I believe there would be some additional code added in the article-template section.

Below is a screenshot to provide more context.

hello

did you figure it out? Im looking for the same, need to output alt text of image as a text under the image