{"id":3942,"date":"2025-07-30T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/remove-a-link-from-an-image-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:01:04","slug":"remove-a-link-from-an-image-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/remove-a-link-from-an-image-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove a Link from an Image in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress images can link to a media file, an attachment page, a custom URL or nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>If an image opens the image file or an attachment page when clicked, you can remove the link from the editor.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your WordPress admin area.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>Pages<\/strong> or <strong>Posts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Edit the page or post that contains the image.<\/li>\n<li>Click the image in the editor.<\/li>\n<li>Open the image link option from the block toolbar.<\/li>\n<li>Remove the link or set the link option to <strong>None<\/strong>, depending on the editor screen you see.<\/li>\n<li>Update the page or post.<\/li>\n<li>View the page and test the image.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you are using the Classic Editor, click the image in the editor, choose the edit option for the image and set <strong>Link To<\/strong> to <strong>None<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want the image to open in a larger view, you may prefer to use a lightbox or media-file link instead of removing the link completely. This depends on the design of the site and the purpose of the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress images can link to a media file, an attachment page, a custom URL or nothing at all. If an image opens the image&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[37],"class_list":["post-3942","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3942\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}