Title: Open External link through image
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Open External link through image

 *  [haydaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haydaw/)
 * (@haydaw)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-external-link-through-image/)
 * Hey,
 * I know I’ve done this before, which is only further infuriating me that I cannot
   figure this out, but how do you get an external link to open in an iframe with
   an image activation?
 * I’m using a .jpg of a button, and I want that image when clicked to open this
   external URL into an iframe. I know I’ve done this before, but for some reason
   whenever I do it now it opens some random url that I didn’t enter.
 * I’m using this as reference:
 * [wp_colorbox_media url=”[http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/image/lightbox.jpg&#8221](http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/image/lightbox.jpg&#8221);
   type=”image” hyperlink=”[http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/image/thumbnail.jpg”%5D](http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/image/thumbnail.jpg”%5D)
 * I don’t know if this is broken, but I cannot get an external page to open with
   a media item, only text.
 * Thanks,
 * Hayden
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-colorbox/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-colorbox/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/)
 * (@naa986)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-external-link-through-image/#post-5850726)
 * Hi, Please provide a link to the page in question so I can take a look at the
   actual shortcode link.

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

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 * Last reply from: [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-external-link-through-image/#post-5850726)
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