Title: Featured Image Post Link Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Featured Image Post Link * [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/) * 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. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Jarret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarretc/) * (@jarretc) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892342) * Which theme are you using? * Thread Starter [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892473) * It’s a theme I created. * Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892483) * try it with this: * ``` ' . the_post_thumbnail() .''; } ?> ``` * Thread Starter [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892488) * Thank you but that did not seem to work… * And I have this in my functions.php file: `add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails');` * Thread Starter [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892490) * Here is my page. It looks like it’s putting a link after the tag instead of before it… * [http://www.votechrisbrooks.com/news](http://www.votechrisbrooks.com/news) * Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892494) * try it with this (in the loop): * ``` ID) . '" >'; the_post_thumbnail(); echo ''; } ?> ``` * Thread Starter [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892496) * 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](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail) * Thanks again man, I really appreciated it. * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892503) * [http://go.rvoodoo.com/Wpthumb](http://go.rvoodoo.com/Wpthumb) * 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. * Thread Starter [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892506) * Thanks Rev. Voodoo! I didn’t even think about that. I just might do it! * Thread Starter [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892512) * Rev. Voodoo, you might want to check your code on your blog… I get a parse error using your version… * Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892537) * No need, I added it to the Codex. I also added code for thumbnails linking to large image size * [Jarret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarretc/) * (@jarretc) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892538) * 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](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 🙂 * [Jarret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarretc/) * (@jarretc) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892539) * Heh, good work keesiemeijer 😀 * Thread Starter [Matt Rittman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrittman/) * (@mrittman) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892554) * Awesome! Thanks for adding this! * Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-link/#post-1892559) * you’re welcome. It was the first time I added to the Codex. 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