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How To Use Post Thumbnails in WordPress 2.9

Around the net, you’ll find all sorts of blogs and websites with thumbnail images associated with articles, including WordCast itself! Post thumbnails are built into WordPress as of version 2.9, so today we’re walking you through how to make it happen.

Post Images and Thumbnails Supported in WordPress 2.9

WPEngineer is reporting this morning that WordPress 2.9 adds native support for post thumbnails, a staple of “magazine” and “newspaper” style themes for years. Up until this point, you needed to use custom fields in WordPress to set an image URL, then specially code PHP to pull from that custom field in a theme file [...]