Posted 1 year ago #
Well I'm tearing my hair out over such a simple issue. How the hell do you link the featured image to the post url!? There's not ONE tutorial online about how to do this!!? I just want the stupid featured image to link to the post it's associated with. If anyone can help, I would be really happy.
Thanks.
Posted 1 year ago #
Which theme are you using?
Posted 1 year ago #
It's a theme I created.
Posted 1 year ago #
try it with this:
<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail()) {
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '" >' . the_post_thumbnail() .'</a>';
}
?>
Posted 1 year ago #
Thank you but that did not seem to work...
And I have this in my functions.php file:
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
Posted 1 year ago #
Here is my page. It looks like it's putting a link after the <img> tag instead of before it...
Posted 1 year ago #
try it with this (in the loop):
<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail()) {
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '" >';
the_post_thumbnail();
echo '</a>';
}
?>
Posted 1 year ago #
That worked perfect keesiemeijer :)
One question though...why is this not in the documentation? I figured a common task like this would be referenced. And it seems like a lot of code to just add a link to the featured image. I mean, it's not a crazy amount but you'd think it'd be a simple parameter to add. Your code should be on this page somewhere:
Function Reference - the post thumbnail
Thanks again man, I really appreciated it.
Posted 1 year ago #
Is awriteup I did about linking thumbnails to posts....
One way is a function, another to simply wrap the thumbnail in a link
As for documentation, if you think the documentation is lacking, feel free to add to it! The Codex is written by volunteers.
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks Rev. Voodoo! I didn't even think about that. I just might do it!
Posted 1 year ago #
Rev. Voodoo, you might want to check your code on your blog... I get a parse error using your version...
Posted 1 year ago #
No need, I added it to the Codex. I also added code for thumbnails linking to large image size
Posted 1 year ago #
mrittman, the Codex page that you linked to in your earlier responses does in fact have the code you were looking for.
If you visit http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail and scroll down to the Linking to the Post Permalink headline you'll find the code :)
Posted 1 year ago #
Heh, good work keesiemeijer :D
Posted 1 year ago #
Awesome! Thanks for adding this!
Posted 1 year ago #
you're welcome. It was the first time I added to the Codex.
Posted 1 year ago #
Great. Now I know I can do the same if I ever need to.
Posted 5 months ago #
keesiemeijer, I came across the same problem and I can't solve it by myself. Unfortunatelly I'm using a template which doesn't have loop.php - do you know where shoud I put your code instead?
Posted 5 months ago #
@riepa
What theme are you using? On what page do you want to do this? The front page?
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