Post Excerpt in WordPress helps to display a short summary of post instead of displaying full content. Post Excerpts are enabled by default in some WordPress themes and can be seen on Home, Archive, Category,Tag pages.
How to Display Thumbnails in Post Excerpt
Whenever post excerpts are enabled, WordPress will not display features like date, author name, images etc automatically. Hence, to display thumbnails in Post Excerpts you need to add a code manually to functions.php file or have to use a plugin. Here are some plugins that helps to automatically display thumbnails in post excerpts:
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1. Thumbnail For Excerpts
Thumbnail for Excerpts is the most popular plugin, that helps to display thumbnails in post excerpts automatically. Simply install this plugin and thumbnails will be live on your blog. You can also configure this plugin by using the options page. and many options are available to display thumbnails in different sizes.
2. Auto Post Thumbnail
Auto Post Thumbnail by SaniSoft is an useful plugin to display thumbnails in post excerpts automatically. After installing this plugin, you can configure the options using control panel. This plugin is bit smart in finding thumbnails and hence recommended if you want to display first image in the post as thumbnail.
3. Hungred Post Thumbnail
This plugin is useful when your blog got too many posts without thumbnails. Install this plugin and navigate to settings page to configure it. This plugin also has a good user-interface and bloggers who hate coding will surely like it. Hungred Post thumbnail plugin satisfies the need of creating thumbnails in post excerpts.
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Thumbnails sometimes are useful. Fo me, I just use original size of images on my site =)
Thats great and we too recommend to use full size images for specific niche blogs…
Now a days most of themes are coming with inbuilt option for Generating Thumbnails. I was using Thumbnail For Excerpts in my blog. It was a nice plugin for creating thumb nails.
Yup, many premium WordPress theme got in-built functionality to generate post thumbnails automatically.
having thumbnails in posts is absolutely necessary to impress the visitors that come to your site. i use autopost thumbnail plugin in my site to display thumbnails. it displays the first image of the post as thumbnail. i haven’t tried out other plugins that you mentioned. your article is quite informative.
We have tested other plugins also and they too display first image of post as thumbnail. Glad you like our article.
I used “Thumbnail For Excerpts” for my previous theme, but now my theme already has a built-in feature, so don’t really require any
No need to use any plugins, if your theme already got in-built features.
Thanks for your suggestions , I will use any one of them to my thesis blog . Thank you .
If you are using Thesis Theme, then we recommend you to use “Thumbnail For Excerpts” plugins, it works like a charm.
Thumbnails also can be display by editing functions.php, i think so. what do you think?
If you are good at coding, you can do it by adding a piece of code to function.php. These plugins are for newbies and for those who don’t like to mess-up with code.
Well what these plug-ins do are simply to slow your page loading. If you are a real webmaster you should study how to code because codes instead of plug-ins work better and loads faster.
These plugins are for those, who hate to mess-up with code. Thanks John, for dropping by !
It could be a great idea if you had used corresponding images to show these 3 related post thumbnail plugins. I don’t know one plugin among the three(Hungred post thumbnail).
But, I’m quite happy with Linkwithin. I heard somewhere that these plugins take much time to load, that’s why I’ve opted for LinkWithin.
These plugins are used to display thumbnails on homepage excerpts (img : http://www.wpsquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/post-excerpts.png). But LinkWithin is used to display related posts and yes its a great idea to include corresponding images Rahul, we need to work on that stuff.
dude, thank you very much..it solved my problem..searching for it for over a week.thank you..long live
Cool list of thumbnail plugin. I am using Thumbnail for Excerpts plugin and so far it is the best of them!
You made my day! I was trying to show excerpts on my blog, but I had some problem with my theme installed, I did lots of changes in code but no luck. I just tried first- Thumbnail for Excerpts and it saved my hours. Thanks a lot. Glad to find your website, keep writing. And keep responding to your readers like this… it feels good to them.
Never use ‘thumbnail for excerpt’ plugin. …..never. when i started my website it use to take 30 freakin seconds to load and i was so frustrated. then i tried to deactivate individual plugin and later checked the speed of loading. At an instance the load time fell down to 3 to 4 seconds. guess what, ‘thumb nail for excerpts’ was the culprit. it made my website to load for 30 seconds. In my view i seriously recommend not to use it!