Linking Thumbnail Images to Outside Websites
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My question is pretty simple, when you make a thumbnail image it either links to a bigger image, the post that you inserted the thumbnail to, or nothing at all.
Is there any way possible to get a thumbnail/image to link somewhere else?
Here is my dilemma and why I want to know.
Say someone reviews some sort of product, they use a thumbnail image of the products in every post where they review the products. When a customer clicks on the thumbnail they much rather them go through an affiliate link to buy the product they are trying to sell rather then just to the full post or a larger image. Is there anyway to do this?
Even just a plugin would be nice.
I have been scouring the internet for a day and a half and it has lead me to create my first topic ever in the wordpress forums.
Hope I can get some help, thanks!
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I’m sure you meant “rather than…”
Do you have a wordpress.com blog or is it hosted on your own server/hosting provider? if it’s the latter, you need to head over to http://wordpress.org/support
If you have a wordpress.com blog, affiliate programs are not allowed here at wordpress.com; having one can result in your blog being suspended.
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Do you have a blog at wordpress.com?
Please provide a link starting with http://Sounds like your affiliate links might be a violation of terms of service at wp.com.
http://wordpress.com/tos/
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https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
Then you want to be over at http://wordpress.org/support/ -
Okay here is the issue. Say I have a thumbnail for a post – that thumbnail can ONLY link to two things:
Bigger Image
The Full Post it is attached toSay I was writing about AT&T’s service and I had the AT&T logo as a thumbnail for the post – if I wanted to link to AT&T how can I do that? From what I am seeing there is absolutely no way possible. When I change the “Link Url” for the thumbnail no matter what I put it reverts back to being a link to the post OR image.
Take the affiliate part of it out of the equation… Just linking to another webpage from a thumbnail, is this possible? Or can a thumbnail ONLY link to the image/post?
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