Edge Lightbox and link to post

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I’m trying to tweak the edge theme a bit. The way the lightbox opens on the main page you have to click the tiny expansion button in the lower right, and clicking on the image takes you to the post itself. I want the opposite to happen, click on the image and open the lightbox, and the lower right be a link to the post.

This seems to be handled in the loop.hbs with the below

    <a class="post-link" aria-label="Navigate to {{title}} page" href="{{url}}">
        <img
            class="post-image"
            srcset="{{img_url feature_image size="s"}} 300w,
                    {{img_url feature_image size="m"}} 750w,
                    {{img_url feature_image size="l"}} 1140w,
                    {{img_url feature_image size="xl"}} 1920w"
            sizes="(min-width: 1020px) 300px, (min-width: 641px) calc((100vw - 50px) / 3), calc((100vw - 40px) / 2)"
            src="{{img_url feature_image size="s"}}"
            alt="{{title}}"
        >
    </a>

    <a class="post-lightbox" aria-label="Expand image" href="{{img_url feature_image}}">
        {{> "icons/maximize"}}
    </a>

i tried swapping the href for the first “post-link” class from {{url}} to {{img_url feature_image}} and it will open the image but not in the lightbox, it just opens the image with the content path. i feel like theres something im missing with the class here to tell it to open with the lightbox.