How to add external link in WordPress Featured Image? Yes, you can do this plugin or without plugin if you need for any reason. Only 3 step without plugin. So try Now.
Add external link in WordPress Featured Image without Plugin
Step 1: Open function file in theme/child theme folder and insert code
// Code for Add External Link to Featured Image with Custom Field
add_filter(‘post_thumbnail_html’,’add_external_link_on_page_post_thumbnail’,10);
function add_external_link_on_page_post_thumbnail( $html ) {
if( is_singular() ) {
global $post;
$name = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘ExternalUrl’, true);
if( $name ) {
$html = ” . $html . ”;
}
}
return $html;
}
add_filter(‘post_thumbnail_html’,’add_external_link_on_page_post_thumbnail’,10);
function add_external_link_on_page_post_thumbnail( $html ) {
if( is_singular() ) {
global $post;
$name = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘ExternalUrl’, true);
if( $name ) {
$html = ” . $html . ”;
}
}
return $html;
}
Step 2: Enable custom field if not enable
You have to enable Custom field, so that you can add link as per your requirement. So tick for custom field.
Step 3: Now Compose/Edit post/page and Insert Custom
Simply ‘Add New Custom Field’ ExternalUrl and then add required external/internal URL in the ‘Value’ entry as given in screenshot and save or update post.
Now simply refresh your post.
Now simply refresh your post.
// Code for Add External Link to Featured Image with Custom Field
add_filter('post_thumbnail_html','add_external_link_on_page_post_thumbnail',10);
function add_external_link_on_page_post_thumbnail( $html ) {
if( is_singular() ) {
global $post;
$name = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'ExternalUrl', true);
if( $name ) {
$html = '' . $html . '';
}
}
return $html;
}Feature Image External Linking through Plugin
You can use simple plugin and do this work easily. So just add below mention plugin and you can add external link.
Simply download – https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-url-to-featured-image/ and insert.
Example for this work
Conclusion:
We have suggest two different method and you can do this yourself. If still problem you can hire wordpress expert at only $5/- and focus on your business.
Alternative, you can view our WordPress Tutorial