Making POST THUMBNAIL link to post

Ok, I have started this on my own.
For the ARCHIVES page, you would use this:

<div class="entry">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php if ( function_exists("has_post_thumbnail") && has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(array(200,160), array("class" => "alignleft post_thumbnail")); } ?></a>

Placing the ANCHOR before the thumbnail and then closing the anchor just after.
So for the other pages, basically the same thing, so I will follow up…

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">

That is the same process for the main index template page to link that image to the post as well.

Still looking for the code to pull the full-size image of the thumbnail

Hi, I had a similar question, this is how i managed the full-size image question :

<?php $thumb_id = get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID );?>
<?php $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $thumb_id,'full' ); ?>
<?php echo $image[0]; ?>

In the first step i get the thumbnail Id
The second allows me to get the image src info (cf. wp_get_attachment_image_src) in full size.
the last echoes the first value returned wich is the url.

Thank you foronca, this is exactly what I needed. This should have been built into post-thumbnails when it was release. Can’t believe they overlooked it.

-Paul

They didn’t. You can set the size of the post thumb and even create custom thumbs using set_post_thumbnail_size() and add_image_size() respectively.

But there seems to be no way to have the thumbnail link to the_permalink. Or am I oevrlooking something. It seems obvious to me that the thumbnail should link to the_permalink. On every page with excerpts. Is there a “standard” way to accomplish this?

Finally got it working and is reducing my bounce rate already!

It works really well with the Cover WP theme

What???!!! How did you guys do this??! I can’t figure it out! Help!

// THIS LINKS THE THUMBNAIL TO THE POST PERMALINK

add_filter( 'post_thumbnail_html', 'my_post_image_html', 10, 3 );

function my_post_image_html( $html, $post_id, $post_image_id ) {

	$html = '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post_id ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( get_post_field( 'post_title', $post_id ) ) . '">' . $html . '</a>';

	return $html;
}

in functions.php links all post thumbnails to the permalink

….Rev. Voodoo

Fantastic! thanks for sharing…

@ Rev. Voodoo
thanks, sharp tip !

@ Rev. Voodoo

Thanks, finally got the featured images linked to their posts! Although the code works fine, I can’t say I completely understand it. Could you (or anyone else) please tell me what the numbers 10 and 3 stand for?

Thanks very much in advance.