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I'm working on a Wordpress site, where all images inside posts are linking to the corresponding attachment pages. I want to use a lightbox but obviously this would require changing all the links back to the media files directly (e.g. xyz.jpg).

The site has a significant number of posts and images so it would be impossible to do this manually.

Does anyone know of solution that would simply replace - in bulk - all of the image links to link to the media file, instead of the attachment page?

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I found a nice snippet at this site for your functions.php that does the trick:

 add_shortcode( 'gallery', 'file_gallery_shortcode' ); 

 function file_gallery_shortcode( $atts ) {
      $atts['link'] = 'file';
      return gallery_shortcode( $atts );
 }

I'd actually been looking unsuccessfully for the same thing, so I'm glad you asked.

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  • Thank you, nice trick to override the gallery shortcode. But this would only work for images embedded in a gallery, though. I would need it to happen for all images in posts.
    – Pim
    Apr 17, 2014 at 20:26
  • Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm looking for it too!
    – Webreaper
    Sep 20, 2018 at 21:03

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