Getting images on archives, blogpage, homepage

[ronsplace]

I admit I'm not in the best of moods today, but I must say that streamlined is making images (in my opinion) far harder than necessary.

I don't remember the last time I had a theme where clicking Categories / Archives didn't show an image.

All my posts have images of some sort. So now to try to manually add a keyword of thumb is quite annoying.

I used Justin Tadlocks "Get The Image" plugin for my last 2 themes, worked like a charm. (But other themes I used before added my images to Archives...)

I really wish you could build this into Streamlined. It's fine to say, "add thumb as a keyword" but it seems to me as something which shouldn't be necessary.

Of course I know nothing about coding, but is it not possible to make some plugin like "Get the Image" work on Streamlined too?

I a) don't have alot of extra time to add the keyword "thumb" to hundreds of posts, and b) I'm not sure it is logical. WordPress uses "thumbnail" so what happens when one fine day you change the system (or I change themes)? I should then delete hundreds of "thumb" keywords?

Blessings, (even if it's been a rough day) Ron