Rollover or hover – text over images

Hello!
I am setting up a new home page on an existing website. The site already uses portfolio grids extensively as news and project indexes. To differentiate news from projects, I have disabled the on-hover effect that would lay titles over grid items, and used a mixture of styled titles and excerpts to overlay text on images (fixed, not on-hover).

For the new home page, I’m trying to restore some kind of rollover/hover effect for the items on the new page only. In the olden days, I would have done it with Javascript. Is there any other way I can get a hover text to appear for easysliders/blog-post-sliders and single images?

Would it be possible, for example, to modify the on-hover-disabling code so that it was ignored for the new home page? The page ID is 13085. The disabling code (in functions.php) is …. (it came from https://kriesi.at/support/topic/hide-tooltips-on-gallery-images/)

function add_custom_tooltip(){
?>
<script>
jQuery(window).load(function(){
jQuery(‘a’).removeAttr(‘title’);
jQuery(‘img’).removeAttr(‘title’);
});
</script>
<?php
}
add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘add_custom_tooltip’);

Many thanks

Jane Joyce