Custom link for featured images

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  jsmatt · Member · Jul 2, 2010 at 4:43 pm

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  Can you set a featured image for a post and then edit the link behind it, directing where the user is taken if they click on the featured image?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  lilmaouz · Member · Jul 3, 2010 at 9:13 am

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  Hello,
  Hope this helps you: Image Settings
  or an html code ?
  <a target="_blank" href="LINK-URL"><img src="IMAGE-URL" /></a>

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  yodibashi · Member · Jul 13, 2010 at 6:04 pm

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  Hello, I have the same problem, do you already have another suggestion/solution?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 13, 2010 at 10:36 pm

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  @jsmatt
  The site linked to your wordpress.cOM username is not a wordpress.com blog. If your question does pertain to a wofree blog being free hosted by wordpress.COm then please post the URL starting with the http:// prefix.

  If it’s a wordpress.ORG install you are asking about then then you are posting to the wrong forum and ought to be posting here > http://wordpress.ORG/support/

  Pleas read this so you are clear about the differences > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 13, 2010 at 10:37 pm

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  @yodibashi
  We require that you post the complete URL for the blog in question when you post to this forum so we can be sure we are providing the correct answers. Please post the URL for the blog you are referring to starting with http://

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  chrisboyddotnet · Member · Jul 13, 2010 at 10:43 pm

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  @jsmatt,

  You can definitely accomplish this. In the link @lilmaouz posted, you’ll see some instructions on adding a link (and other properties) to an image. If you do this, then make the image the featured image, this should get you where you need to be.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-settings/

  Try that and let me know how it goes.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 14, 2010 at 3:52 am

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  Featured images play a specific, theme-dependent, function: for instance, in Structure they show up at the beginning of frontpage posts as well as in the homepage top area and link to the individual post, in 2010 they show up as alternative header images, in Modularity Lite they show up on category pages, etc. You can’t make them link to where you might want. To do that, you need regularly inserted images.

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  yodibashi · Member · Jul 16, 2010 at 1:08 pm

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  Hello timethief,

  It’s by far not finished..but see this URL:

  http://www.vliegmaatschappijen.net/

  I want the featured image to link to a specific URL so not to the blogpost as it is now.
  The permanent link to the blogpost (text) can remain.

  How to do so..

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 16, 2010 at 1:38 pm

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  @yodibashi

  That link you provided is not a wordpress.com blog.
  There are 2 separate and different kinds of wordpress:

  WordPress.ORG — self-hosted blogs using software from wp
  Wordpress.COM — free blogs on a multiuser platform
  Read about the differences:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  This forum is for WordPress.COM, and the forum you need is for WordPress.ORG:
  http://wordpress.org/support/