Conditional, clickable featured image

CMS & WordPress
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Hello everyone :slight_smile:

I have a Wordpress site that has one featured image per post. Often, that image is exactly the same width as the maximum content width for a post, so it displays 1:1. Sometimes however, it’s a much larger image.

What I’d really like to achieve is this: when the source image is much larger than can be displayed, I’d like the user to be able to click the post image and have it popup (maybe in a lightbox?) the full resolution copy, which they can then click off when done.

Can anyone help me with this?

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Some themes do this automatically, that is any image link that is clickable can open in a lightbox rather than in a new page. Some lightbox plugins can also be added to a plainer theme without this feature and will add that lightbox function. It is a bit hard to give advice not knowing how your current theme operates, but yes you can add lightboxes into a theme and yes an oversized image can be displayed but you may need to monkey about with things to get it to work.