I upgraded to Wordpress 4.7 and now the thumbnails of my posts no longer link to the posts

Where as in the past I would see this in the code:

<div class="thumb-shadow"><div class="post-thumb"><a href="/post-url/"><img src="banner.png" width="740" height="253" alt="post title"/></a></div></div>

Now the /post-url/ part is blank like so:

<div class="thumb-shadow"><div class="post-thumb"><a href=""><img src="banner.png" width="731" height="286" alt="post title"/></a></div></div>

I see in postformat.php that this is the code

	<h2>
		<span class="post-format"></span>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
	</h2>

	<?php bfa_thumb( 620, 180, true, '<div class="thumb-shadow"><div class="post-thumb">', '</div></div>' ); ?>

And that in Montezuma: thumb.php (includes/thumb.php):

	if( trim( $this_thumb ) != '' AND $this_thumb != FALSE ) {
		if( $link == 'permalink' ) 
			$this_thumb = '<a href="'.get_permalink( $id ).'">'.$this_thumb.'</a>';	
		echo $before . $this_thumb . $after;

I'm not sure what changed, or how to fix it.. any help?

I'm seeing the same thing on my test site, the href attribute for the thumbnail's anchor tag is empty, although the post title's link is OK. Good thing I haven't updated one of my production sites to WP 4.7 yet. Thanks for the heads up, I'm going to hold off on upgrading until there's a fix.

I've come up with a temporary workaround until the code is fixed.

At first, I tried surrounding the call to bfa_thumb() with an anchor tag that calls the_permalink:

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<?php bfa_thumb( 620, 180, true, '<div class="thumb-shadow"><div class="post-thumb">', '</div></div>'); ?>
</a>

This did not work, because bfa_thumb() outputs an anchor tag of its own, and you cannot nest anchor tags (it's syntactically incorrect).

So then I looked at the documentation for bfa_thumb, and it says that the last argument in the function is $link, and the default value for $link is permalink, which is supposed to indicate that an anchor tag that points to the post is to be output. If you pass in an empty string for $link though, the function won't output an anchor tag, and adding an enclosing anchor tag (with a call to the_permalink) will work:

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<?php bfa_thumb( 620, 180, true, '<div class="thumb-shadow"><div class="post-thumb">', '</div></div>', ''); ?>
</a>

So this snippet is just like the above one, except there's an empty string added as the last argument for the bfa_thumb() function to prevent it from outputting the anchor tag.

Originally Posted by CrouchingBruin

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<?php bfa_thumb( 620, 180, true, '<div class="thumb-shadow"><div class="post-thumb">', '</div></div>', ''); ?>
</a>

When I try your temp fix, it pops some of the thumbnails out of the smaller box and makes them not fit neatly

If I recall correctly, this was an issue with Montezuma years ago that required a fix of some kind

@poorboy and/or @CrouchingBruin:
Can you do an export of yout Montezuma settings and attach them to a reply. I haven't been able to cause the issue yet.

NEVER MIND now I have it occurring

see Patch 128-02: Fix issue where thumbnails don't link to post after upgrading to WP 4.7 for the solution

Originally Posted by juggledad

or replace the current montezuma/includes/thumb.php with the attached version - after unzipping it

Works, thanks <3

Yes, works for me, too. Thanks!