Call Specific Thumbnails - Very Easy

[michaelgcohen]

Hi

Since I always receive tremendous support here I thought I would offer a quick solution I used.

Although the auto resize for the thumnails is a nice feature many photographers will be picky and want to define their own thumbnail images.

I had the girl I am working with create her thumbnails at 50x50 (you can choose your own size) and then I changed one small piece of code in the home.php, mainindex.php etc...

You simply change this (note I have borders off etc)

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=11&offset=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
		[img]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, [/img]" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />				
		<?php endwhile; ?>

To this (the only change is the "image" to "thumbnail"

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=11&offset=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
		[img]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, [/img]" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />				
		<?php endwhile; ?>

Then when creating a post upload the thumbnail image, define a custom field and put the url...