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By: tricky

tricky — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:14:25 +0000

all this is already supported by the Post Thumb plugin, which does a great job creating thumbs for posts that enable a wide spectrum of usages.

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Images, thumbnails and custom fields in WordPress | WordPressGarage.com — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:13:09 +0000

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By: aNieto2k

aNieto2k — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:20:53 +0000

One year ago I wrote it, it’s a plugin for do it.

http://www.anieto2k.com/plugin.....e-tu-blog/

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:59:08 +0000

Im a satisfied user of the Yet Another Photo Blog plugin. Handles post images and thumbnails nicely, even allowing simple integration without any theme updates. See http://johannes.jarolim.com/bl.....photoblog/ for all the details.

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:24:42 +0000

I just wrote a tutorial on this last month ( Adding images to posts). No link love for me?

In all seriousness though, this can be a really powerful feature because you can pull these thumbnails out anywhere in your blog. They don’t have to be used along with just the post.

By: CrossX

CrossX — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:35:37 +0000

thanks this is what i was searching for my blog

By: O

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:56:34 +0000

This is very cool but it would be cooler if it was a plugin, as you suggest.

By: david

david — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:42:00 +0000

Good article and good design, but I believe I handled the same things without needing to do any special changes to the code. I wrote a script that feeds directly off of the RSS feed and dynamically creates thumbnails for the posts directly from the images are already part of the article.

No need for any thumbnail image directory… change the image in a post and the home-page simply changes to match it.

Take a look at my site miteyo.org.

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:40:10 +0000

Ha! That’s funny, I just had this idea a week ago to use the Custom Fields to add post thumbnails. I took it a step further by utilizing pictures posted to flickr using their 75×75 size and also using the Custom Fields to display picture credits. See it on my site at bui4ever.com

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:57:16 +0000

You wouldn’t have to edit the post, just view what post ID it is. And if you just do nothing but posts, then it goes in order. If your last post was ID299 and you haven’t published anything since, your next post will be ID300. It’s fairly simple, one line of code, and doesn’t involve custom fields (the need to add one for every post), so I figured it’d be a little easier than having to edit something every time you post (it also gives it an ID when you save and continue editing).

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:19:52 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for mentioning Hack WordPress!

There are definitely quite a few ways to do this. One of my favorite sites to see this in action is CyberNet News.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:57:23 +0000

Hi - I’m glad you found my post useful!

Matt - that’s a pretty smart workaround for posting thumbnails, but I think there’s one drawback (correct me if I’m wrong): a post only gets an ID number once it’s been published. This means you have to write the post, publish it, and then go back and create an image with the ID number in it. So you have to publish, and then edit, no?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:30:52 +0000

Whenever I wanted to do thumbnails for posts, I just placed an image within the loop that had a filename of the post-id, which would look like:

.jpg” align=”left” border=”0″ />

Then, the only thing you have to do is worry about making the image and uploading it - and not worrying about things like custom fields. Fairly simple.

Post IDs are found under Manage > ID (it’s the very first column.) So if you wanted to make a thumbnail for post 255, you name the image 255.jpg.

Simple, right?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:00:15 +0000

That’s nifty. I’ll have to check it out.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:58:08 +0000

Precisely what I’ve been looking for all across the board. I was going to just figure it out myself, but sometimes I think there’s a tutorial for everything to do with WordPress.

Thanks!

By: Anirudh

Anirudh — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:43:31 +0000

I’d worked on a similar plugin that i’m gonna release soon. Essentially it looks for a category(assuming posts have single categories) and gives a corresponding thumbnail.

Great for easily adding a bit of eyecandy.

By: Ulf

Ulf — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:15:34 +0000

Over at my site, I use the Post Thumbs-plugin, which does the same thing, basically (providing that there's an image in your post). Check it out.