Title: Featured Image External Linking
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Featured Image External Linking

 *  [menappi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menappi/)
 * (@menappi)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-external-linking/)
 * I’m having the hardest time trying to accomplish the following: I want to set
   the featured images on each of my pages to an external link, opening in the same
   window. So I want the visitors to be able to click my featured images to take
   them to a link of my choice.
 * I’ve found others having the same issue but their solutions aren’t working with
   my setup. I’ve attempted to go the route of creating a custom field ‘externalurl’,
   placing my URL into the field and then adding some code to template files but
   I can’t get a clickable featured image. Others have mentioned putting the below
   code into the page.php file, replacing some thumbnail related code but I don’t
   have any thumbnail related code in this file.
 * This is the code i’ve tried pasting into my page template files but 1) I’m not
   sure what php file to paste this in because I can’t find any references to the
   featured images. I’m using the Pytheas theme and the site is custom-screws.com.
 *     ```
       <?php $name = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'ExternalUrl', true);
       if( $name ) { ?>
       <a href="<?php echo $name; ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></a>
       <?php } else {
       the_post_thumbnail();
       } ?>
       ```
   
 * Help!!!

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-external-linking/)
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