How to disable Featured Image Link

So, this actually says what to do with the link

if ( $featured_image_link_to == 'post' ) {
					$featured_image_link = get_permalink();

What should I write instead of get_permalink, to disable the link?
Or maybe, how do I add a CSS class in there (to hide it or something)

Pretty please help me out

Hi,
you can simply comment out the specific row.
try:

if ( $featured_image_link_to == 'post' ) {
					//$featured_image_link = get_permalink();

see if that make it.
Also having a link to your site will help us give you more help with css and html.
Regards

Thanks for the reply, but no, that didn’t removed the link, it links to the home/index page now…

here’s the web https://www.zemaraim.com/page/2/ (the bottom row has the ‘post’ setting.)

[No bumping, thank you.]

Hi, you should have a loop.php file check that file for <div class="post-thumbnail">. The code right after that should generate the “a href” if you can share it … would be grate.

Oh, sorry for the bump, didn’t realise its that much of a no-no.

So that div is located in my functions.php, the a href is at the very end

// Get Featured Image + Link
	function cudazi_get_featured_image( $img_size, $fallback ) {
		global $post;		

		$cudazi_post_hide_featured_single = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'cudazi_post_hide_featured_single', true);
		if ( is_single() && $cudazi_post_hide_featured_single ) {
			return false;
		}

		if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
			$featured_image_link_to = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'featured_image_link_to', true);
			$featured_image_link_to_url = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'featured_image_link_to_url', true);
			if ( $featured_image_link_to_url ) {
				$featured_image_link = $featured_image_link_to_url;
			}else{
				if ( $featured_image_link_to == 'post' ) {
					$featured_image_link = get_permalink();
				}else if ( $featured_image_link_to == 'image' || !$featured_image_link_to ) {
					$featured_image_link = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'full' );
					$featured_image_link = $featured_image_link[0];
				}
			} // end if url set
			$featured_image = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, $img_size, array( 'class' => '' ));
		}else{ // no thumbnail set
			$featured_image_link = get_permalink();
			$featured_image = $fallback;
		} // end if has featured image				

		if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
			return "<div class='post-thumbnail'><a href='" . $featured_image_link . "'>" . $featured_image . "</a></div>";
		}
	}

Deleted the a href from there, and the image lost the link, which is nice, but how will I determine/assign which images will have it and which won’t, now that is going to be quite a task.

Btw, here’s the theme I’m using.

Help me understand: you want to disable all links from photos/images or you want to do this only for featured images?
What is the criteria that make the difference between a photo/image that has link and one that hasn’t?

Well the idea is simple; I’ve got a grid of portfolio items/thumbnail images and at the backend I can determine if they’re gonna open in full post (permalink) or if they just open in a lightbox image; (the backend is carried in the meta-boxes.php)

I’d like to add another option for ‘in progress’ works, where the thumbnail won’t be clickable at all, so it would just show an alt text, like ‘Coming soon…’.

basically what I need to do is add another line like this:

$featured_image_link_to_options = array(
	  			'post' => __('Full Post','cudazi'),
	  			'image' => __('Image','cudazi')
	  			'coming-soon' => __('Coming Soon','cudazi')

and somehow tell that ‘coming-soon’ won’t have any a href (the get permalink is obviously not good)

else if ( $featured_image_link_to == 'coming-soon' ) {
					$featured_image_link = get_permalink();
				}

but I don’t know how to assign it with another has_post_thumbnail like this:

if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
			return "<div class='post-thumbnail'>" . $featured_image . "</div>";
		}

(man, this support forum needs a better way of showing code, needs some color differentiation, or at least the iframe should be scalable!)

You can create a custom post meta for each “coming soon” post and use it as checker:
let’s say you add a post meta to each “coming soon” post like this
post_sts = “csoon” (you can set is as you wish);
then in your code you have:

if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
                      $is_coming_soon = get_post_meta($post->ID, "post_sts", true);
                      if ($is_coming_soon=="csoon") {
                          return "<div class='post-thumbnail'>. $featured_image . "</div>";
                      } else {
			return "<div class='post-thumbnail'><a href='" . $featured_image_link . "'>" . $featured_image . "</a></div>";}
		}
	}

you can set up the custom post meta from the dashboard in the edit page of each post. Hope this will do it.
Regards

Hm, I get error on the third line of your code; in EditPad, the { brackets on first and third line of your code are displayed in red (which means they’re “un-inclosed, or something)

thing is, for my portfolio post types, I can’t turn on Custom Fields [from the Screen Options]. Downed the Custom Field Template, but its making my head spin, can’t make out how to turn it on.

Could you please elaborate how to create a custom post meta?

Is it done thru Custom fields? Where should I put [what?] code?

I looked up a few tutorials, but things get a little complicated for me, espcially when I don’t have custom fields in my portfolio post type…

Yes if you set a custom field you can get the value of that custom field using the “get_post_meta()” function.
The code had an extra “}” at the end so this should do it:

if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
                      $is_coming_soon = get_post_meta($post->ID, "post_sts", true);
                      if ($is_coming_soon=="csoon") {
                          return "<div class='post-thumbnail'>. $featured_image . "</div>";
                      } else {
			return "<div class='post-thumbnail'><a href='" . $featured_image_link . "'>" . $featured_image . "</a></div>";
		}
	}

you can use custom fields with any theme and any plugin the only thing is if you have a visual custom field option or if you need to code it using php or directly in mysql.

Yeah, already tried removing some of the “}”, but still get errors on the third line.

The first “{” seems to be wrong, as its highlighted in red..

Or maybe its because I didn’t set the “coming soon” meta, yet?

(Which I have no idea how to do, tbh)

Man, this is making my head spin… Please help me out.

HOW do I set the the custom field?

Ughhh this is too complicated to just simply turn off a link!

There are more ways to set up a custom field, it seems that the easy ways are not for you (since you are using custom post types and a lot of custom plugins) so you have 2 options use a template to add custom fields from the front-end, develop your own plugin to set them up from the backend (a lot of work with the first 2), use a php -widget visible only if you are logged in as admin and set up custom fields from the front end(this will work only if you have sidebars/footer where you can include the widget)
it will look something like this:

<?php if( current_user_can( 'edit_users' ) ) {
if ($_POST['custom_value']){
$add_meta = $_POST['custom_value'];
add_post_meta($post->ID,"custom_key",$add_meta);
echo "Meta added!";
} else echo "<form name='ad_meta' action='' method='post'><label>Meta:</label><input type='text' name='custom_value'><input type='submit' name='add_it' value='submt'></form>";
} ?>

so this will not work out of the box, you will have to make sure that there is a variable “$post->ID” that returns the current post id, you will have this option only in the singe post page, but it’s a starting point, you can obviously customize it even more to suit your needs by adding an input for the meta_key value (if you don’t want it to be predefined in the php code) and so on.
Regards