Rob Bennet Interactive

WordPress - get post thumbnail URL only

I had a need to ONLY return the post thumbnail (featured image) URL without being wrapped in an image tag.  I was going to use it as a bgimage so I could overlay some stuff.  Figured it out by returning it as an object, seems to work pretty well:

$thumbnail = new SimpleXMLElement( get_the_post_thumbnail( $postid ) );
print $thumbnail->attributes()->src;