Is there a WordPress plugin to add a photo before every post? I can't use the regular img tag because the person managing the blog doesn't know how to upload files via FTP... so, the simpler the plugin, the better.
You can add a photo to each post by editing the single.php in the theme folder. Add the link to your image just before <div class="postspace2">
I don't want every post to have the same photo, I want the author to upload a photo that will be included at the beginning of every post..
I haven't been able to locate a plugin for you but here's what you do: underneath the post editor, there is an "Upload file" feature enabling you to upload a file without having to use FTP. So you can browse your hardrive for the image you want, give it a title and description and then click upload. Once the image is uploaded right click on image's thumbnail so you can highlight the image location and enter that image url to the image inserter tag in the ediitor. If you need more help with this, please feel free to contact me.
Don't think you will find a plugin for it because its done from within the admin panel using custom fields. The bummer is that your theme has to be written to use custom fields properly. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields explains some of it but doesn't go much into the main feature of allowing images to be attached to a story. Thats one of the popular ways of creating magazine like layouts in Wordpress