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GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
2,134 Points
Posted by GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
2,134 Points

Remove Featured Image Link

I've been working on Wordpress a lot lately and have been able to cross most of the hurdles I've encountered using the codex.

But I have not been able to deactivate the links on featured images from posts.

I want to be able to selectively disable a featured image's link to the full post.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

1 Answer

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

Since this can be theme dependent, can we have a little more info?

What theme are you using?

Is this for the page where you list your most recent blog entries, archives page, category page, single page?

Is there a template file related to that page already in place? Follow the Hierarchy template hierarchy

Typically you are looking at something like this:

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
   <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
   </a>
 <?php endif; ?>

to remove the link it would look like this

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
 //remove opening a tag
   <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
//remove closing a tag
 <?php endif; ?>

hope that helps.

GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
2,134 Points
GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
GianLuca D'Intino-Conte
2,134 Points

Thanks for the really quick reply,

I'm using a theme called DynamiX

It's for the home page which can currently be seen at http://scanpro.developpement360.ca/

The template file for that page is the "default page" one under this theme.

If I were to remove all the links from all the featured images, could I do that with a "global function" from the functions.php file?

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

hmm... it's according to how that them is setup. The function the_post_thumbnial()` in itself does not add a link. So if the theme has added a filter, then you might be able to remove that filter.

try looking for a filter with "post_thumbnail_html' see Codex on the_post_thumbnail