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How To Set Default Attachment Display Settings In WordPress
by Adam Struve on February 10, 2013
I run a couple of image heavy WordPress blogs and have been clicking each image one by one to remove the links on them. Clicking each image seemed like a huge waste of time so I went looking for a solution. Google search results had people making plugins and doing things with jQuery to set href to # and all kinds of weird stuff. The real solution is just to load the hidden WordPress options menu at:
/wp-admin/options.php
Scroll down until you see the option “image_default_link_type”
The options you can change that to are:
- blank
- file
- post
Blank removes the link. File makes images link directly the image file. Post links the image to a dedicated URL that’ll look something like example.com/?attachment=134.
Now all you have to do is click save after you’ve set image_default_link_type to what you want. Pretty simple right? If you were attempting to code a plugin or looking for a javascript solution… STAHP! 🙂
Hi,
The solution that alexbestoloci made would work, but it concerns me that with every WordPress upgrade you did, those options would be overwritten. Here’s what I did that worked great with WP 3.5.1 and would stay after an upgrade.
Place this in your theme’s functions.php file.
function mytheme_setup() {
// Set default values for the upload media box
update_option('image_default_align', 'center' );
update_option('image_default_link_type', 'media' );
update_option('image_default_size', 'large' );
}
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'mytheme_setup');
If you want the default link action to be none, then change this line
update_option('image_default_link_type', 'none' );
Hope this helps and good luck
Thanks drsprite, this was useful and what I needed to make the image_default_link_type = none.
@drsprite I added to my child’s theme functions.php and it worked…Thanks
