Template:POTD
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Usage
Displays the English Wikipedia's current picture of the day (POTD) in a box of no more than 600 pixels wide, without the blurb (explanatory text), for use on user pages. To always display the current day's POTD, use {{POTD}}; to permanently feature a particular day's POTD, use {{POTD|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 | Southern burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia cunicularia) Colonia.jpg |
{{POTD/[date]|size}} | The size of the image, without the trailing px | 400 |
{{POTD/[date]|caption}} | The image caption (blurb) | The burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) is a small, long-legged owl in the family Strigidae. It is native to the open landscapes of North and South America, where it inhabits grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, and other open habitats with low vegetation, nesting and roosting in burrows usually excavated by other animals. When threatened, it retreats underground and produces rattling and hissing sounds resembling those of a rattlesnake, an example of acoustic Batesian mimicry. This southern burrowing owl (subspecies A. c. cunicularia) was photographed near Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. |
{{POTD/[date]|title}} | A link to the article the image represents | Burrowing owl |
{{POTD/[date]|texttitle}} | A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute | Burrowing owl |
{{POTD/[date]|credit}} | The credit line of the image, including the genre (e.g. photograph, painting) | Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp |
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/2026-07-28|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=2026-07-28}} or {{POTD|date=2026-07-28}}. Again, this system will only work for POTDs selected beginning January 1, 2007.