• Resolved planetright

    (@planetright)


    First, Thank You for this great theme it may be just what I need.
    Question is:
    Can you link to a different URL from the thumbnail picture and text in the grid on the home page?
    I know its defeats the idea of a blog but I need to link to several resources outside my website directly from the home page. I tried modify the html and that works from the page post itself but not from the thumb/homepage.
    Thanks!

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  • Off of the homepage? You will need to edit index.php and edit the anchor tag href surrounding the thumbnail image

    @evan Herman – your helping out here is really great, but PLEASE don’t advise people to modify theme files – but to use a child theme for those kinds of changes…https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    Thread Starter planetright

    (@planetright)

    Thank You, I’m definitely not a php guru. But will editing the index.php make the anchor tag the same for all post then. I would like to have the option as some post will have post pages within the site but many won’t. I know this is a bit of custom work and I will research the codex as WPyogi suggests. I just need to find the solution to this.
    Thanks

    Read up on child themes and makes sense to me! However still doesn’t solve my problem as I don’t know which code needs to be modified and made into child theme. I think `<a>” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>” >
    <?php the_post_thumbnail(‘wpstrapgrid-post-feature’); ?>
    </a>`

    Theme Author Brian Harris

    (@zgani)

    Apologies for not being on hand to answer your query @planetright.

    At the moment as with all standard themes the thumbnail if linked would actual link out to the post permalink.

    It is possible to link out to other urls but that require a bit of work than just edit a file or two. The best option would be to add a metabox to the post edit screen where you can enter the desired url which will then be fed to the content file and wrapped around the thumbnail.

    It is doable as long as you are comfortable with and know your way around php.

    Thread Starter planetright

    (@planetright)

    Thank you for the direction. If I come up with anything I will post back. If anyone else comes up with a solution please share. : )

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