New images inserted into posts will have no links by default. Existing self-links on all images are removed before the post content is shown.
As of April 2026, LCS Image Nolink is a WordPress link plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
By default, all images in WordPress posts link to themselves. When a user sees a link, they click on it, and the image shows up by itself for no apparent reason. This has several drawbacks:
This plugin uses a standards compliant HTML DOM parser (http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/). It does not use regular expressions (regex) to accomplish link removal and therefore will not break your site pages or mess up your theme.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Prevent PHP errors if DOM parser does not return an object.
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