Get featured image URL in WordPress

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to get the featured image URL in WordPress.

You can use the wp_get_attachment_image_src function. It takes 3 parameters but we only need the first two: $attachment_id and $image_size.

<?php if (has_post_thumbnail()): ?>
  <?php $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'large' ); ?>
  <img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" alt="">
<?php endif; ?>

In the example above we render a featured image if it exists. The size of the image is set to ‘large’ but you can also change it to ‘thumbnail’ (which is a default value) and ‘medium’.

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