Disable featured image link to post using Featured Posts Widget (not GFWA)

[Ben Siegfried]

Anyone know a way to disable the featured image link to post using the Featured Posts Widget?

I know the Featured Widget Amplified allows this but currently it is buggy and is breaking Agency-Pro's use of featured posts.

[Robin]

I think you'd have to essentially code a new widget. Thankfully the awesome Gary Jones has set it up already and you can use his code and modify it. You'd want to change line 94 and remove the a tag there.

I have not used this myself, so I don't know if it's creating a second Featured Post widget or overriding the one that ships with Genesis. I think ideally you'd want to have a second one. (Well, ideally you'd add a checkbox to remove the link but that's one I don't know how to tackle).

If it helps to have a write up, Gary posted that gist in response to this post by Sridhar Katakam.

HTH

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[Ben Siegfried]

I just tried this with a new dev test site with executive-pro and I couldn't get the new custom widget to show up. I did go to the default featured posts widget files and found the equivalent of line 94 that you state, and tried to alter that but if you touch anything on that line it just breaks the featured image in various ways. Nick the Geek emailed me back with a response over customizing this widget for what I want to do and he said it can be done but takes a lot of code. His GFWA could be updated by December 2013, or so he said. I'd rather wait at this point than fool around with it because by the time his GFWA comes back for HTML5 Themes, the answer will be a simple check box.

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