I’ve enabled my theme with the ability to display the “Featured Image” for the post. However, I’m trying now to determine (1) How to assign a hyperlink to the image and (2) How to call the_post_thumbnail() so that it wraps the hyperlink around the image.
I can’t find where this is supported in the current release of WP, but I’m thinking that I must just be missing something.
<div class="entry">
<?php if(has_post_thumbnail() && get_option('theme_show_featured_image'))
the_post_thumbnail('large', array(
'class' => 'alignleft',
'style' => 'margin:0 10px 10px 0;')); ?>
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page »</p>'); ?>
I assume you want this to be output inside of
the_content()
?You would probably have to define a shortcode that will output
the_post_thumbnail()
. You could either define the shortcode to accept a URL as an argument, or else wrap the shortcode with HTML anchor tags.EDIT:
Assuming you’re already outputting
the_post_thumbnail()
inside ofthe_content()
, you could add a custom field into which the user enters a URL, and then, if the URL is present, output anchor tags around the call tothe_post_thumbnail()
.Use get_the_post_thumbnail() function for getting the featured image. This will return the img string for you, instead of echoing it immediately.
Also, add a Custom Field to the post, named, for example
URL-for-featured-image
, and add the URL you want the image to link to as the value. Get it’s contents with get_post_custom_values(‘URL-for-featured-image’) and use the result in the hyperlink’s href.