Retrieve permalink to attachment page / ID

Agnes
(@agneslesagegmailcom)

11 years, 5 months ago

I am trying to retrieve the link or better permalink, inside single-post.php, to the page that displays the featured image (and uses an image.php template)

I manage with this
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url')?>/?attachment_id=<?php echo get_post_thumbnail_id(); ?>"><?php the_title() ?> </a>

To get this:
http://www.mysite.com/?attachment_id=2545

Yet I d like to get the permalink, but whatever I try I end up getting the URL of the post the attachment is attached to (or parent page), that is the post I am on, and not the URL of the image template.

Any idea?

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Rebecca O'Brien
(@rjmastey)

11 years, 5 months ago

Have you tried get_attachment_link? You’d still need to use get_post_thumbnail_id, but it should return the permalink.
Thread Starter Agnes
(@agneslesagegmailcom)

11 years, 5 months ago
I am trying here
http://www.atable.com/traiteur/plateaux-repas/les-ecrins/

The first link ‘les Ecrins’ (on bottom of the page) is made with
```
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url')?>/?attachment_id=<?php echo get_post_thumbnail_id(); ?>">
<?php the_title() ?> </a>
```
It does send me to the addachment page (http://www.atable.com/?attachment_id=2671) as does the “display’ link in the image library (http://www.atable.com/traiteur/plateaux-repas/les-ecrins/plateau-les-ecrins)

But the second link made with
```
<a href="<?php get_attachment_link($post->id); ?>">
<?php the_title() ?> </a>
```
Sends me back to the same product page the image is attached to
(http://www.atable.com/traiteur/plateaux-repas/les-ecrins/)

And it is the same if I try:
```
<?php $link = get_post_thumbnail_id();?>
<a href="<?php get_attachment_link($link); ?>">
<?php the_title() ?> </a>
```
I don’t get it….
Thread Starter Agnes
(@agneslesagegmailcom)

11 years, 5 months ago
Finally this worked:
```
<?php
$attachment_id = get_post_thumbnail_id();
$attachment_page = get_attachment_link( $attachment_id );
?>
<a href="<?php echo $attachment_page; ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a>
```
Thanks for putting me on track!
Thread Starter Agnes
(@agneslesagegmailcom)

11 years, 5 months ago

mm… don’t know what happened I am now with ?attachment_id=2671 again 🙁

Thread Starter Agnes
(@agneslesagegmailcom)

11 years, 5 months ago

It seems the problem comes not from the code used, but from the permalink structure and changes to the image titles etc. In some cases even from the admin I can’t get the permalink structure.

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