ayishaw

Realise I am responding 5 months after this was posted, but thought I would share how I solved this in case it is helpful to you or anyone. I an using this plugin to display testimonials and had the same issue re: not being able to prevent the featured image (attempting to) Link to single view.

Feels a little hacky admittedly, but I was able to solve this easily enough with only CSS by adding a pseudo element as an invisible overlay that prevents clicks.

.posts-list.testimonials * {
	cursor: default!important;
}

.posts-list.testimonials article .ptam-block-post-grid-text {
         z-index: 10;
}

/* Invisible pseudo-element prevents clicking on links in featured image which cannot be removed  */
.posts-list.testimonials .ptam-block-post-grid-image:before {
	content:"";
	position: absolute;
	top:0;
	left: 0;
	height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
	z-index: 5;
	background-color: transparent;
}