Title: Adding an image overlay?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding an image overlay?

 *  [teresawatts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teresawatts/)
 * (@teresawatts)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-image-overlay/)
 * For a website I’m working on, the clients want any large images in post content
   to link to an attachment page with the full sized image. To indicate that there’s
   a larger image if the smaller image is clicked on, they want a small magnifying
   glass image overlay to display over the image. Obviously this needs to not appear
   on images which don’t have a bigger file to click through to.
 * I’ve tried messing around with what’s there with CSS, but I really need another
   element to work with and put the overlay in. I understand that to do this I need
   to write a filter(?) that will work when a linked image is in the content, but
   I’m new to that side of things and really have no idea where to start.
 * Could someone point me in the right direction? Or is there a plugin that does
   something similar?

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 * [hook](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hook/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)

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