Clickable Featured Image for WordPress

Clickable Featured Image fixes a common WordPress problem: featured images often look clickable, but nothing happens when visitors click them.

Activate the plugin and featured images become useful links:

On single posts and pages, featured images link to the full-size image file by default, which works well with common lightbox plugins.

If the image already displays the full-size file, the plugin leaves it unlinked instead of opening the same image again.

In Query Loop blocks, featured images link to the post by default.

In classic theme archive loops, the plugin leaves thumbnail markup to the theme when the theme may add its own post link.

If a theme or block already links the featured image, the plugin leaves it alone to avoid duplicate links.

The default setup is still zero configuration, but version 1.1.0 adds a small Settings screen for sites that need more control.

Features

Make post featured images clickable

Link single-post featured images to the full-size image file

Skip pointless same-image links when the displayed single featured image is already the full-size image

Link Query Loop featured images to the post permalink

Avoid duplicate or nested archive image links when the theme owns the post thumbnail link

Optional attachment-page or no-link behavior on single posts