Featured Image Post Link

Matt Rittman
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months 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.

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Jarret
(@jarretc)

15 years, 3 months ago

Which theme are you using?

Thread Starter Matt Rittman
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months ago

It’s a theme I created.
Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

15 years, 3 months ago
try it with this:
```
<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail()) {
  echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '" >' . the_post_thumbnail() .'</a>';
}
?>
```
Thread Starter Matt Rittman
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months ago

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
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months ago

Here is my page. It looks like it’s putting a link after the <img> tag instead of before it…

http://www.votechrisbrooks.com/news
Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

15 years, 3 months 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>';
}
?>
```
Thread Starter Matt Rittman
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months 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.

Rev. Voodoo
(@rvoodoo)

15 years, 3 months ago

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
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months ago

Thanks Rev. Voodoo! I didn’t even think about that. I just might do it!

Thread Starter Matt Rittman
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months ago

Rev. Voodoo, you might want to check your code on your blog… I get a parse error using your version…

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

15 years, 3 months ago

No need, I added it to the Codex. I also added code for thumbnails linking to large image size

Jarret
(@jarretc)

15 years, 3 months 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 🙂

Jarret
(@jarretc)

15 years, 3 months ago

Heh, good work keesiemeijer 😀

Thread Starter Matt Rittman
(@mrittman)

15 years, 3 months ago

Awesome! Thanks for adding this!

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

15 years, 3 months ago

you’re welcome. It was the first time I added to the Codex.

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