[Resolved] How to make The Post Featured Image shortcode display the actual url?

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[AtefR7377]

Hi,
I have a CPT called "books".
I have implemented the Google recommended JSON-LD code for books in these posts.
One of the requirements is to show the book cover (featured image) url, like this:

<em><u>hidden link</u></em>

However, due to caching from Jetpack,, when I use this shortcode:

[wpv-post-featured-image size="full" output="url"]

I get this cached version:

<em><u>hidden link</u></em>

Which is uselss for the JSON-LD code, becasue I don't own the wp.com site, so the Google webmaster tools refuse to crawl this image.

So is there a way to alter the shortcode to just display the actual image url, not the cached version?

thanks

[Shane]

Hi Atef,

Thank you for getting in touch.

What you can do is to try the following custom shortcode below.

// Add Shortcode
function wp_featured_url( $atts ) {

	// Attributes
	$atts = shortcode_atts(
		array(
			'id' => '',
		),
		$atts
	);

	$url = get_the_post_thumbnail_url($atts['id']);
	return $url;

}
add_shortcode( 'featured_url', 'wp_featured_url' );

Add this to your custom shortcodes in Toolset -> Settings -> Custom Code then activate it.

Finally you can use the shortcode like this on your posts.

[featured_url id='[wpv-post-id]']

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane