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Ibnul Hasan
Ibnul Hasan

Reputation: 471

The URL added while adding featured image in wordpress

I am working with wordpress latest version. As in wordrpess, we can add URL while adding a featured image in a post as there are text fields like caption, title, alt text, description, URL etc. I've added a link like http://example.com/abc-news I am fine to show the featured image in the blog post but I want that link as

<a href="URL" title="">{featured-image}</a>

So that, if anyone clicks on the featured image he/she will go to that link.

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 769

Answers (2)

Ibnul Hasan
Ibnul Hasan

Reputation: 471

Thanks for your prompt reply. You are right that it's 98% depending on the theme. The theme is using a meta_value to add a custom URL for the featured image. So, I need to get that URL through get_post_meta I've got from here. And I am fine with it now. :-)

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Jack Bonneman
Jack Bonneman

Reputation: 1805

If you are using the default theme with the latest version of WordPress, you can edit content.php in the 2014 theme directory.

You need to wrap <?php twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail(); ?> with the link code pointing to your URL.

This code should be around line 13 in content.php.

<?php twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail(); ?>

To link to the current blog post, you could add this code:

<a href="' . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '"><?php twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail(); ?></a>

If you are using a different theme than the default, open the file which contains The Loop in your theme, search for the_post_thumbnail or a similarly named function, and change the code as above.

The exact answer will vary depending on theme, but 98% of the time the fix should be similar to the above. Hope this helps.

Edit: Here's some more information: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail#Post_Thumbnail_Linking_to_the_Post_Permalink

Upvotes: 2

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