Does anyone know of a Wordpress plugin that lets you specify a unique thumbnail image for each article? I'm looking to set a small thumbnail that will display for the "intro text", or the small introductory paragraph I have set for each article, before the "-more-" tag. This would make the front page of the blog look more professional. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a plugin that does this. No matter what I do in the HTML editor, I can't get the image to flush to the left, and have the text appear on its right. It would also be a pain to do this with an HTML table for each article, and I don't know how it would show up via RSS, either.
I use an excerpt plugin that's perfect for this. You actually use it in place of the more tag by wrapping what you want as your excerpt (including the thumbnail) in tags, and you can specify whether you want it showing up on the permalink page or not. I'm using it at http://dev.audioxposure.com (for the CD reviews to get the small image on the home page and large version on the single post page). From what it sounds like you'd wrap your thumbnail and first paragraph in the excerpt tags, set it not to show the excerpt on the permalink page, and then have the main image and first paragraph again for your actual content. This way it shows the first paragraph or whatever in both places, but with different images. Here's the plugin: http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/01/24/c6excerpt-plugin/
I think that is exactly what I was looking for!! I'll install it tonight. Thanks for the help - Positive rep given!
You're welcome. Oh, and if you want to align your image to the left, you can do it in a few ways. 1. You can just use the image tool in the wysiwyg editor, and set the alignment from the drop down menu there. Or 2. You can go into the code and set the alignment manually in the html. Or 3. You can go into the code and wrap the image code with something like <div style="float: left;"></div>