Get Image URL of WordPress Post Thumbnail Feature

24th Dec 2010 | Posted by reza | 9 Comments

In my recent work, I have to get image URL of post thumbnail. This is a bit difficult because WordPress doesn’t provide a function to get the URL, but only funtion to get a full HTML code. I’ll share the solution here.

Because the post thumbnail actually is an attached image to a post, you could use wp_get_attachment_image_src() to get the URL. Place the following code in the loop:

<?php 	

	$imageArray = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), 'thumbnail_name' );
	$imageURL = $imageArray[0]; // here's the image url

 ?>

You could replace thumbnail_name with ‘thumbnail‘, ‘medium‘, ‘large‘ or any thumbnail name you set via add_image_size function.

With this code, You’ll have more freedom to use image from WordPress thumbnail post feature.

8 Comments to “Get Image URL of WordPress Post Thumbnail Feature”

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1. Charlotte says:

   May 9, 2011 at 07:10

   Thanks for this post – it’s very helpful.

   Reply
2. Ben says:

   May 14, 2011 at 03:14

   I was looking for a way to have all the posts image in an array. I found a way to have all images with html tags, but not the pure URL of the image. And that is what I need.

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3. Ramees says:

   June 23, 2011 at 23:11

   VERY VERY THANKS FOR THIS POST.

   Reply
4. ice says:

   September 29, 2011 at 05:02

   Thanks., How can i use this code .
   can you show example . ^^!

   Reply
5. Kakha Giorgashvili says:

   December 3, 2011 at 10:46

   thank you so much!

   Reply
6. LucasMorato says:

   January 11, 2013 at 04:05

   Thanks so much! :DD

   Reply
7. johanso says:

   April 24, 2013 at 10:53

   Thanks for this post..

   Reply
8. somebody says:

   October 28, 2013 at 05:36

   little, but helpful thins, thank you

   Reply

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