Brilliant. Hadn’t thought to look there. So indeed, the captions were stored differently than usual. WordPress evolves over time and its plugins even faster. I may have been using a gallery plugin that got deprecated along the way.

The captions are visible in an archive of this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150104172151/https://spirographicart.com/2014/07/27/wild-gears-gallery-full-page-designs/

I think you can probably match them up to the images by hovering over the broken links in the archived page to see the names of the images and match them to the ones in the current version of the post above.

Certainly it would help. This post was made 11 years ago, and was one of my first about Wild Gears. I see that wrote that details were in the captions. And there are no captions – I looked in the backend. So if there were any, they’re gone. Perhaps I was using a gallery plugin that no longer exists. Sorry about that!

You’re right. I made an animated GIF out of it, but it doesn’t usually rotate on YouTube. I just edited this page to include the large version of it so you can see it. It’s almost 2 MB, which is rather big for a website image. Hopefully by the time you’ve read this, it will have downloaded for you.

I happen to have a piece of A4 paper (not usual in Canada, but I have in-laws in Europe). It would just barely work. The teeth themselves would be over the edge, but the penhole of a gear should just barely stay on the paper.

I’ll pass on your question to Aaron by email and copy you.