Adding a link to a featured image
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I am trying to add a link back to the post in the featured image in the post
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Hi there,
Your site at http://www.toosanguine.com/ is not using WordPress.com, but is built with the open source WordPress software found over on WordPress.org. You can find their support forums here:
https://wordpress.org/support/
However, how featured images display on your site is controlled by your theme, so you can also try contacting your theme’s developer for help, or if your theme has a subforum on WordPress.org that might be the best place to ask.
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The actual site IS the wordpress.com site http://www.toosanguine.wordpress.com.
The theme is Independent Publisher 2 -
This seems to be a duplicate thread already answered at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adding-link-to-a-featured-image-in-independent-publisher-2-theme?replies=3#post-3051434
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Thanks for the link, @timethief.
On WordPress.com it’s not possible to add a link directly to a featured image, but featured images should by default link to the post where they appear in the main feed of the site.
If I view your site’s feed at https://toosanguine.wordpress.com/blog/ every featured image is linking to the post, same as the post title. That’s how it’s supposed to work and cannot be changed. Where exactly are you trying to add a link to the featured image?
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Can you please give me the link you’re trying to share?
To test I pasted your most recent post, https://toosanguine.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/the-effing-ineffable/, into Facebook, and while the preview shows the correct featured image, it links back to your blog as it’s supposed to.
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Yes! Pasting the link into social media does link back to the post. I had been sharing it using the “Sharing” option within the theme which appears to somehow to be causing the issue of identifying the image as unlinked. I don’t see how I can adjust that glitch but will now post manually to social media sites.
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Interesting. I went back and shared that post using the Sharing button on your site, and it posted to Facebook exactly the same as when I manually shared the link, using a proper post card on Facebook:
https://cloudup.com/cb9lMqqj5zx
I tested this with a few different posts, and can’t replicate what you describe where it’s just posting the image.
Can you please try the following for me: Clear your browser cache and cookies, and check your browser settings to make sure third party cookies are allowed.
Then log into Facebook, visit your site, and try sharing a post using the sharing button. Does it behave any differently?
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OK Cleared browser cache and cookies…. third party cookies are allowed…. posted a test post to facebook via the sharing option in the theme resulting in a post with the link and the featured picture… but the picture linked to the facebook picture default: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214523471624409&set=a.10206611633393398.1073741825.1349096643&type=3&theater whereas, if I copy the blog post link and paste it into a facebook post, clicking on the picture will send one directly to the blog post.
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posted a test post to facebook via the sharing option in the theme
What sharing option in the theme? Are you speaking of the sharing button under the post?
https://cloudup.com/cI3xlItj4eZ
but the picture linked to the facebook picture default: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214523471624409&set=a.10206611633393398.1073741825.1349096643&type=3&theater
That link shows a message that the content is not available, so I cannot check it.
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