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Using the first image in a WordPress post as featured image

I am a hobby photographer and I like to show and share my “work”. WordPress introduced the “featured image”-feature in version 2.9 (as “post thumbnail“) which is fine for displaying an image that is somehow hooked to an article or blog post, or even a page.

Post Thumbnail, now Featured Image, is an image that is chosen as the representative image for Posts, Pages or Custom Post Types. The display of this image is up to the theme.

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Adding a link to a WordPress image caption

In many blog posts of mine, I am using images and sometimes I even publish posts whose only content is an image. I have been asked by other bloggers, how I add a link to another site within WordPress’ native image-caption. Especially using the WordPress.com network, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to use a link in an image caption. Though, the riddle’s solution is fairly easy, though.

Sometimes,

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