Absolutely, and it’s called… you guessed: post_image 🙂
http://guff.szub.net/2006/02/09/post-image/
One note to your #2: it works ONLY if the image has been uploaded during the Write process (=doesn’t work with “selecting an existing image”).
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Ah, I can’t do it then.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-attached-image/
That plugin is really good only, again, it requires the image is uploaded. What, then, if I want to use a previously uploaded image for another post? 🙁 The good thing about that plugin above is that you can specify what size to FORCE the uploaded images to be cropped to for the thumbnail AND the full image. Which is great for my blog users who will upload images of all sizes.
There’s got to be some plugin that does what I want, or someone who can suggest a hack.
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pad wrote : What, then, if I want to use a previously uploaded image for another post?
I fear there is no way to do this in an automated fashion…
In WP, each uploads is an attachment with a “post parent”… It means that it belongs to a post. So, when you upload file X in post Y, in the database, Y is the parent of X.
With a plugin, or a function, you can then ask WP to automatically find a file related to a post and display either the file or the thumbnail.
You can display a file already uploaded, or the thumbnail, but you will have to do this manually, by browsing all uploads when you write a post…
So manually, you can send any thumbnail already uploaded to the editor, and copy the link in “optional excerpt” and then send the full size to the editor in the post content…
Then, on your front page, or your category/archive page, you display only the excerpt, and in the single.php, you call the content… The excerpt will then show the thumbnail, and the full post will show the full size image…
S.
My plugin EasyPermGals lets you specify an image for the header/post image.
In your case you’d need to install EasyPermGals, turn off full-auto mode, then use the theme function to place the image next to your title.
Specify the exact image you want to use by giving the image a title that contains the word “[header]”.
In case you still need it …
