Getting Thumbnail Path rather than Image Tag
Thumbnail is essentially attachment so you can approach from that side – lookup ID with get_post_thumbnail_id() and fetch data with wp_get_attachment_image_src(), like this: if (has_post_thumbnail()) { $thumb = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id(), ‘thumbnail_name’); echo $thumb[0]; // thumbnail url } (source)