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	Installing the ATLAS Calorimeter - edit1.jpg
{{POTD/[date]|size}}	The size of the image, without the trailing px	575
{{POTD/[date]|caption}}	The image caption (blurb)	ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. The experiment is designed to take advantage of the unprecedented energy available at the LHC and observe phenomena that involve highly massive particles which were not observable using earlier lower-energy accelerators. ATLAS was one of the two LHC experiments involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in July 2012. It was also designed to search for evidence of theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. This image shows the eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter in the centre.
{{POTD/[date]|title}}	A link to the article the image represents	ATLAS experiment
{{POTD/[date]|texttitle}}	A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute	ATLAS experiment
{{POTD/[date]|credit}}	The credit line of the image, including the genre (e.g. photograph, painting)	Photograph credit: Maximilien Brice, CERN

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/2024-08-06|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=2024-08-06}} or {{POTD|date=2024-08-06}}. Again, this system will only work for POTDs selected beginning January 1, 2007.

See also

• {{Pic of the day/Main Page style}}