Directly linking images to external links

  • I have noticed that images that are put into the image gallery does not allow for those images to be directly linked to individual external urls. You can put links directly underneath each of the images, but not to the image itself. Everytime, I try to do this, it only goes to the thumbnail image, not the external url. Furthermore, I tried using a plugin that is supposed to redirect the thumbnail url to the external url, but to no avail. It seems that this a problem that needs to be addressed. I appreciate input on this matter.

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  • Josh

    (@ocmarketingwiz)

    when you click the media button and upload an image, when you select an image and your about to insert the image you have some options as to what you want the image to do in the bottom right corner.

    Attachment Settings
    Media File
    Attachment
    custom URL
    None

    You want to choose Custom URL. That allows you to insert any url that you want.

    If thats not the case and what your looking for is the coding. Then you want to change the tab from in the editor screen from Visual to Text.

    Once in the text Screen you want to look for the html for the imagees that you want to hyper link. The html should look something like this,

    <a href="https://mmblocal.com"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-81" src="https://mmblocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/original-mmb-local-960-300x252.png" alt="original mmb local 960" width="300" height="252" /></a>

    You want to change the: a href=”https://mmblocal.com”&gt; at the beginning

    Hope this helps

    Thread Starter mhuffman73

    (@mhuffman73)

    Does this replace the thumbnail link?

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