Permanent Thumbnail?

[ed1283]

What would I type to have a permanent thumbnail for the left/right bottom section without me having to use custom fields? in revolution 2.0 i uploaded a file to the images folder and would use /images/mypicture.jpg" somewhere in the code below and I wouldn't have to bother using custom fields in posts because the thumbnail would be done automatically.

the code looks different in lifestyle 3.0 so that got me confused. I know this is probably easy but I have spent the last half hour searching the forum and can't find it! If someone can show me how it would look like i would really appreciate it.

btw is there a way to have thumbnails be put automatically so the same one won't show up this time which is this method (something along the lines of random thumbnails)

<div class="hpfeatured">
<?php $feature_cat_1 = get_option('lifestyle_feature_cat_1'); $feature_cat_1_num = get_option('lifestyle_feature_cat_1_num'); if(!$feature_cat_1) $feature_cat_1 = 1; //setting a default ?>
<h3><?php echo cat_id_to_name($feature_cat_1); ?></h3>



<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".$feature_cat_1."&showposts=".$feat ure_cat_1_num); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
<?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true) ): ?>
[img]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, [/img]" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
<?php else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content_limit(80, ""); ?>