Template:Pic of the day/doc

Usage

Displays the English Wikipedia's current picture of the day (POTD) in a box of no more than 600 pixels wide, with the blurb (explanatory text), for use on user pages. To always display the current day's POTD, use {{Pic of the day}}; to permanently feature a particular day's POTD, use {{Pic of the day|date=[date]}}, where the [date] parameter can be given in any valid format.

It is also possible to create your own custom POTD layouts, in case the already-existing versions will not look good within your user page design. Mix and match the following components to make your own. This system will only work for POTDs selected beginning January 1, 2007. Be sure to replace [date] with an appropriate date value. For a dynamically updating version, use {{#time:Y-m-d}} (example: {{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|image}}).

Template	Description	Renders as
{{POTD/[date]|image}}	The name of the image, without the File: prefix	Sgt. Samuel Smith, African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters.jpg
{{POTD/[date]|size}}	The size of the image, without the trailing px	500
{{POTD/[date]|caption}}	The image caption (blurb)	African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or Black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the third largest racial or ethnic group in the United States, after White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people in the United States, having West African and coastal Central African ancestry, with varying amounts of Western European and Native American ancestry. This ambrotype photograph, taken circa 1863 to 1865, depicts Sergeant Samuel Smith, an African-American soldier of the Union Army's 119th United States Colored Troops, with his wife and two daughters.
{{POTD/[date]|title}}	A link to the article the image represents	African Americans
{{POTD/[date]|texttitle}}	A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute	African Americans
{{POTD/[date]|credit}}	The credit line of the image, including the genre (e.g. photograph, painting)	Photograph credit: unknown

There are two additional predefined layouts:

• {{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}: This has the image and caption above each other with no borders. Used on some of the Main Page alternatives and also suitable for user pages.
• {{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|row}}: This has the image and caption encapsulated in (usually) a single table row. This is the version used on the current Main Page.

It is also possible to permanently feature a POTD for a selected day. Just add a specific value for the date you want. For example, today's POTD is {{POTD/2025-02-01|image}}. Likewise, you can use date parameters with the other templates as well. If you like the pre-made formats, you can use date parameters there as well, like this: {{Pic of the day|date=2025-02-01}} or {{POTD|date=2025-02-01}}. Again, this system will only work for POTDs selected beginning January 1, 2007.

See also

• {{Pic of the day/Main Page style}}