Slideshow no longer linking to associated post/page

The most common reason for the theme to be breaking the slide links is because the theme is automatically wrapping the post’s permalink around every featured image.

It shouldn’t do this because featured images can be used in so many different ways, the permalinks should be added to the featured images when they are needed, like as post thumbnails in a magazine layout.

The code that is causing this is most likely in your functions.php file, is CelebrityPress5 a free or commercial theme? I can take a look if it is available for download.

I can maybe give you more info about the problem if you could post a link to the site you are working on.

I am not using featured images though. They are straight up <img src> coded into a post. I will however look into the functions. to see if something’s going on there…

would this be it?

function my_post_image_html( $html, $post_id, $post_image_id ) {
$html = ‘‘ . $html . ‘‘;
return $html;

If it is filtering the post images, that could affect featured images. I would try removing that filter and testing it. It looks like CelebrityPress5 is a commercial theme, so I can’t see the code to give you more info, but the developers you bought it from should be able to easily solve that problem.

OK. After some searching I realize where it is getting the incorrect URL from.

When you go to the SLIDE directory you see all the slides you uploaded.

Slide Image Slide Title Slide link

when you put your curser OVER the actual slide the URL for that image is

?slide=(NAME OF SLIDE)

the Celebrity Press Theme is getting the IMAGE NAME AND SLIDE LINK vs. the SLIDE LINK … Unfortunately, I do not know how to fix this.

Yes, each slide is a unique piece of content with its own URL, but they are never used for the plugin. Your theme is filtering them somehow, either filtering links, or featured images, or all images.

I would start disabling filters in your functions.php file by commenting them out, and eventually you will figure out what is breaking the links. Although the theme developer had to add this and should know exactly what is causing this problem.

I got this response from the theme guy:

“You should add the developer what function he needs to add to enabled this as we are not filtering anything in your theme.
Also I think this is a little confusing “Yes, each slide is a unique piece of content with its own URL, but they are never used for the plugin” what is never used and why?”

Is this the theme that you are using? https://gorillathemes.com/celebritypress-magazine/

yes. its a premium theme.

Do you have a link to the site you are working on so that I can see exactly what is going on?

Is there a way to PM you?

There’s no PM on the forums here.

If you don’t want to like to your site, you can email people (if they tell you it’s okay and give you their email), but generally we do everything publicly here.

(I noted that Gorilla themes offers a $40 version of the theme that comes sans support, and a $70 version WITH support. Generally speaking, if a theme co offers support, even at price, it means that the majority of people who know how to fix this best are over there on their support forums.)

We have the “support” version. Which is a link to forums. They are scratching their head and blaming the plugin.

(though by the look of it they do a lot of function rewrites. I had this plugin working with other themes)

As of right now my finger is pointing to the theme, I’m just not getting any real responses from them.

You’re welcome to email me a link if you don’t want to share it here.

As Ipstenu said, the theme’s developers are better equipped to solve this problem since I can’t download the code for the theme. But in my experience developers are much more likely to fix a problem when you are able to point to exactly what is wrong.

If you could send me login info for the site as well, I can look at the theme’s code in the admin editor and maybe figure out what the problem is.

i am using dance floor gorilla theme. the essential package. i am having issues displaying pictures in the slideshow home screen. please i need help with that and i am running out of deadline!!!