How to link the_attachment_link() to the post

  • Hi.

    I’m building an image based site. I’m modifying a theme and using the following code (pulled from the codex) to pull the image from each of 2(variable) random posts.
    This all works fine. What I am struggling with is making these resulting images link to their relevant post. At the moment, when you click the resulting images they link directly to their raw attachment file.

    <?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'attachment',
	'numberposts' => 2,
	'post_status' => null,
	'post_parent' => null, // any parent
	'orderby' => 'rand',
	);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
	foreach ($attachments as $post) {
		setup_postdata($post);
		the_attachment_link($post->ID, false);
		}
	}

?>

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    TIA

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  • Thread Starter Ecko

    (@ecko)

    New day, clear head/fresh mind. All working. It might not be the best way, perhaps preg_replace() would be suitable? Anyway, if anyone else wants to show a random post image and link it to the post in WordPress. This works:

    <?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'attachment',	// SET POST TYPE
	'numberposts' => 5,		// SET HOW MANY POSTS TO SHOW
	'post_status' => null,
	'post_parent' => null, 		// ANY PARENT
	'orderby' => 'rand',		// GET RANDOM POSTS
	);

	$attachments = get_posts($args);

// IF TRUE..
if ($attachments) {

	// ... CHURN THROUGH EACH POST ATTACHEMENT AND OUTPUT AS IMAGE LINKED TO POST
	foreach ($attachments as $post) {
		setup_postdata($post);

		// EXPLODE THE PERMALINK AND STRIP DOWN TO JUST THE POST URL
		// (POST TYPE IS SET TO ATTACHMENT AND RETURNS https://www.domain.com/post-name/attachment/attachment-name)
		$postURL = explode("attachment",get_permalink($post->ID));	

		// GET THS POST ATTACHMENT IMAGE
		$postImage = wp_get_attachment_image($post->ID, $size='thumbnail', $icon = false);

	?>
	<!-- BREAK OUT OF PHP TO INSERT HTML LINK CODE -->
	<a href="<?php echo $postURL[0]; ?>"><?php echo $postImage; ?></a>

	<?php

		} 	// END FOREACH LOOP

	}		// END IF STATEMENT

	?>

    This is great! Thanks so much for being the only person to answer this question!

    However, I am getting a ‘?’ at the end of each url. https://example.com/?

    Here’s what I’ve got rolled out:

    <?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'attachment',	// SET POST TYPE
	'numberposts' => 5,		// SET HOW MANY POSTS TO SHOW
	'post_status' => null,
	'post_parent' => null, 		// ANY PARENT
	);

	$attachments = get_posts($args);

// IF TRUE..
if ($attachments) {

	// ... CHURN THROUGH EACH POST ATTACHEMENT AND OUTPUT AS IMAGE LINKED TO POST
	foreach ($attachments as $post) {
		echo '<div class="box col1">';
		setup_postdata($post);

		// EXPLODE THE PERMALINK AND STRIP DOWN TO JUST THE POST URL
		// (POST TYPE IS SET TO ATTACHMENT AND RETURNS https://www.domain.com/post-name/attachment/attachment-name)
		$postURL = explode("attachment",get_permalink($post->ID));	

		// GET THS POST ATTACHMENT IMAGE
		$postImage = wp_get_attachment_image($post->ID, $size='thumbnail', $icon = false);

	?>
	<!-- BREAK OUT OF PHP TO INSERT HTML LINK CODE -->
	<a href="<?php echo $postURL[0]; ?>"><?php echo $postImage; ?></a>

	<!-- I added for styling & date -->
	<span class="date-image"><?php the_time('m.d'); ?></span>
	</div>

	<?php

		} 	// END FOREACH LOOP

	}		// END IF STATEMENT

	?>

    I basically just added in some HTML & removed orderby, as I want latest post images with links to posts.

    Any help would be appreciated!

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