Making the Text Overlay A Hyperlink

[fixthepig]

Is there a way that you can make the text overlay, clickable? By this I mean when the post title and preview of content scroll over the picture is there a way to make it linkable back to the article. Right now the only way to get to the featured article is via clicking the picture.

[Kris Themstrup]

HTML is allowed in the "featuredtext" custom field value. Simply put it in there. Hope this helps!

[fixthepig]

I got it to work! But is there anyway to get the post Title clickable?

[paddler]

This would be really useful functionality, making the title and/or the overlay a link. Right now, I'm afraid a lot of users won't think to click the image... I suppose some "continue reading" text at the end of the featured text would be a decent workaround, but nonetheless if it wouldn't be hard to do, it sure would be sweet.

Thanks!

[Miak]

Yes! this would be wonderful. I agree, I usually try to click on text when I see galleries, then I realize I have to clik on images.. but some users don't.

[Kris Themstrup]

This is possible. Adding an a href to the title in the gallery files would probably work. Let me check it out and see. We're in the middle of finalizing an update, so if we can do it dynamically it will be included.

[paddler]

Kris - that would be completely awesome. Thanks for the update!

[admin]

To make your post/page titles to be links, you need to open gallery.php page and find 2 existences of this line:

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<h2><?php the_title() ?></h2>

and replace both with:

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<h2> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Read More"><?php the_title() ?></a></h2>

[asherblack]

Flawless. Thank you.

[paddler]

Works like a charm, many thanks... will this be included in a future plugin version?