Title: I cannot set Image Hyperlinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# I cannot set Image Hyperlinks

 *  [charlbury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlbury/)
 * (@charlbury)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-cannot-set-image-hyperlinks/)
 * I can’t set the hyperlink for an image. When I try to make an image point to,
   say, [http://www.worpress.org](http://www.worpress.org), it always reverts to
   the location of the image that I have uploaded, i.e.
 * [http://blog.example.com/?attachment_id=356](http://blog.example.com/?attachment_id=356)
 * I’ve tried to set the url for the hyperlink
 * 1. when I upload the image using the add an image option and get the screen were
   you can set the title, description etc.
 * 2. by selecting the image in the post and using the Insert/edit link icon (the
   chain icon)
 * 3. by editing the html and setting the [LINK](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-cannot-set-image-hyperlinks/?output_format=md#)
   code.
 * It doesn’t matter what I do, it just links the image to a post showing only the
   image.

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 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-cannot-set-image-hyperlinks/#post-1695481)
 * When you are in EDIT IMAGE for the Post or Page. You are clicking on NONE for
   link. And then entering the link you want?
 *  Thread Starter [charlbury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlbury/)
 * (@charlbury)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-cannot-set-image-hyperlinks/#post-1695497)
 * I’ve just done this again to check it out.
 * I go to my post that already has an image in it. I click on that image and it
   display the Edit Image and Delete Image icons. I click the Edit Image icon.
 * The Edit Image dialog box is displayed and near the bottom of the dialog box 
   it says Link URL and it has three buttons, None, Current Link and Link To Image.
 * I press None, and the I enter my URL in the Link URL field and hit the update
   button at the bottom of the screen and the dialog box closes and I return to 
   the Edit Post screen.
 * When I click the main blue update button to update the post on the site, the 
   link is overwritten and just points to a post containing only the image.
 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-cannot-set-image-hyperlinks/#post-1695546)
 * Have heard of this problem but honestly do not know what causes it. The only 
   solution is to go to the page, Edit in HTML instead of visual and edit the link
   manually. The link is just after the:
    `<a href=`
 * save the page/post in HTML before switching to Visual editor. Then normally once
   its saved you can go back to the visual editor if needed

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## Tags

 * [hyperlink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hyperlink/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-cannot-set-image-hyperlinks/#post-1695546)
 * Status: not resolved

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