Featured image link – found bug (?) and solution

Hello, thanks for great plugin!

I have problem with missing featured image link and I think I′ve found solution.

This is the original piece of code from the plugin file responsible for thumbnails:

case 'thumbnail' :
    if( self::isValid($atts['thumb']) ) {
        $thumbWidth = is_numeric($atts['thumbwidth']) ? $atts['thumbwidth'] : '';
        $thumbHeight = is_numeric($atts['thumbheight']) ? $atts['thumbheight'] : '';
        if( !empty($thumbWidth) && !empty($thumbHeight) ) {
            $output .= get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(), array($thumbWidth, $thumbHeight) );
        } else {

            $size = ( !empty($thumbWidth) && !empty($thumbHeight) ) ? array( $thumbWidth, $thumbHeight ) : 'medium';

            if ( $thumb = get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID(), $size ) ) {
                $output .= '<a href="' . tribe_get_event_link() . '">';
                $output .= $thumb;
                $output .= '</a>';
            }
        }
    }
    break;

I can see the “href” around thumb output at the end of this section. But in my case this was doing absolutely nothing on live page. The only link was the title of event, not image.

So I′ve added “href” also to the first output line. And now it finally works and thumbnail has link on live page.

So this is my working piece of code:

case 'thumbnail' :
  if( self::isValid($atts['thumb']) ) {
      $thumbWidth = is_numeric($atts['thumbwidth']) ? $atts['thumbwidth'] : '';
      $thumbHeight = is_numeric($atts['thumbheight']) ? $atts['thumbheight'] : '';
      if( !empty($thumbWidth) && !empty($thumbHeight) ) {
          $output .= '<a href="' . tribe_get_event_link() . '">' . get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(), array($thumbWidth, $thumbHeight) ) . '</a>';
      } else {

          $size = ( !empty($thumbWidth) && !empty($thumbHeight) ) ? array( $thumbWidth, $thumbHeight ) : 'medium';

          if ( $thumb = get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID(), $size ) ) {
              $output .= '<a href="' . tribe_get_event_link() . '">';
              $output .= $thumb;
              $output .= '</a>';
          }
      }
  }
  break;

I′m not a php programmer so I′m not sure if my solution is 100% clean. But it works for me so I hope it could help someone else too.

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(Enfold Church theme, WordPress 4.5.2, The Events Calendar 4.1.3, The Events Calendar Shortcode 1.2)

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