Devenia / WordPress plugin
Choose where WordPress featured images lead with Clickable Featured Image
Use featured images as clickable links that lead visitors to the destination the page intends.
Single posts and pages
Choose the destination for an individual featured image
A photograph may need a larger view; a decorative header may need no link. Choose the behavior that helps visitors use the image.
Full-size image file
Let visitors inspect details in a photograph, drawing, or screenshot. This is the default on single posts and pages when a larger image file is available.
Attachment page
Send visitors to the image’s attachment page. Check that this page is enabled and presents useful information on your site before choosing it.
No link
Leave a decorative image unlinked. The default file-link setting also skips the link when the displayed image already uses the full-size file.
Post lists and archives
Help visitors open the post behind a thumbnail
On a list of articles, clicking a thumbnail usually needs to open that article. The plugin handles WordPress Query Loop images and respects links your theme already supplies.
Query Loop blocks
Featured images link to their posts by default. You can disable this in the plugin settings.
Classic theme archives
Your classic theme controls thumbnail links on archive pages. If an archive image still has no link, check the theme’s settings or template.
Existing image links
A link already supplied by a theme or block is kept. Change that link in the theme or block that created it.
Settings
Set up and test your image links
After activation, open Settings > Clickable Featured Image. The defaults link eligible single images to their larger file and Query Loop thumbnails to their posts.
Select affected content
Select the public post types you want to affect, such as posts or pages. Only types with featured-image support are available.
Set individual destinations
For single posts and pages, choose the full-size image file, attachment page, or no link.
Set archive and loop destinations
Choose whether archive and Query Loop images link to the represented post’s permalink or have no link.
Test the links
Open a post, a page with a Query Loop, and an archive used on your site. Click the featured image in each and check that it reaches the expected destination.
Lightbox compatibility
Open larger images in a lightbox
To display an image over the page, use a separate lightbox plugin and choose the full-size image destination here.
Clickable Featured Image supplies the link; your lightbox plugin supplies the overlay. Test the combination with your theme. If a click opens the image as a separate page, check whether the lightbox recognizes featured images.
Runtime requirements
What you need
These are the plugin’s minimum versions. Your theme must support featured images.
5.4 or later
WordPress 5.4Required for the plugin. Query Loop behavior applies when your site uses that block.
7.4 or later
PHP 7.4The minimum PHP version required by the plugin.
Install and configure
Download the plugin and set its link rules
Install and activate Clickable Featured Image. Open its settings to choose the destinations, then test a featured image on your site.