Title: Associating thumbnails with posts?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Associating thumbnails with posts?

 *  [fallingj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fallingj/)
 * (@fallingj)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/associating-thumbnails-with-posts/)
 * Howdy, partners…
 * Is there code or a plugin that can associate a unique image with a post in a 
   certain category?
 * So, if I call a category, it will show me different images with each title and
   excerpt?
 * Had a look around for plugins, but no dice.
 * Look at nymag.com – Scroll down and you can see a section called “Faces of the
   Week”. I’d like to do something like that…
 * Ideas/plugins would be appreciated.

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 *  [marketanomaly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marketanomaly/)
 * (@marketanomaly)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/associating-thumbnails-with-posts/#post-369042)
 * Bump. I’m also looking for this feature. I don’t think it should require a plug-
   in. Just the innovative use of already existing functions or tags.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/associating-thumbnails-with-posts/#post-369043)
 * You can do just about anything with a bit of knowledge on [The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
   and [Using_Custom_Fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields).
 * Or you can look at plugins. 🙂
    [Post Image](http://guff.szub.net/2006/02/09/post-image/)?
 *  [marketanomaly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marketanomaly/)
 * (@marketanomaly)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/associating-thumbnails-with-posts/#post-369044)
 * I’ll go with the first suggestion. Plugins have a bad habit of breaking/slowing
   down my site. I can’t afford to have the display of all my images dependent on
   a plugin. Besides, using custom fields seems like the simplest and most logical
   way to associate images with posts.
 * It seems that the implementation would be to add a link to the original image
   and a link to the thumbnail as two custom fields. Then you would just call up
   the info where you need it.
 * Any additional advice on doing this would be much appreciated. I’ll post the 
   solutions or partial solution when I get it working.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/associating-thumbnails-with-posts/#post-369044)
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