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 | Hans Baluschek_-_Arbeiterstadt_(1920).jpg |
{{POTD/[date]|size}} | The size of the image, without the trailing px | 320 |
{{POTD/[date]|caption}} | The image caption (blurb) | City of Workers is a 1920 oil-on-canvas painting by German artist Hans Baluschek. It depicts a working-class sector of Berlin, with workers' homes in the background beneath a smoke-filled industrial skyline. Railway tracks dominate the foreground, and in the lower left corner there is a dark figure on a train car, facing away from the viewer. Baluschek, a member of the Berlin Secession, depicted cityscapes frequently in his work, highlighting their contradictory beauty and despair. City of Workers has been in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum since 2010. |
{{POTD/[date]|title}} | A link to the article the image represents | City of Workers |
{{POTD/[date]|texttitle}} | A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute | City of Workers |
{{POTD/[date]|credit}} | The credit line of the image, including the genre (e.g. photograph, painting) | Painting credit: Hans Baluschek |
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/2026-10-02|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=2026-10-02}} or {{POTD|date=2026-10-02}}. Again, this system will only work for POTDs selected beginning January 1, 2007.