These are two separate unrelated questions so best to ask them in separate support-forum topics, but here goes…
1. The Twenty Twelve theme is set to show the thumbnail above the post title, see content.php:
<header class="entry-header">
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<?php if ( is_single() ) : ?>
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
To change that, you’d make a child theme and move the location of the thumbnail tag in the child’s content.php template:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Or you might be able to get it done via CSS, eg, via the Jetpack plugin’s Custom CSS feature:
http://jetpack.me/support/custom-css/
2. To add archives to the sidebar, use the move the “Archives” widget into your sidebar in Dashboard> Appearance> Widgets screen:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Widgets_Screen
But the best place to ask your question about a specific theme might in that theme’s support forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/theme/twentytwelve
Hi Hearvox,
Thanks so much for your help with both of these things!
I’m actually wondering how I can get the blog entry thumbnail to display on the blog homepage, where the list of blog entries comes up. Can you help me out with that?
Also, I am not using the sidebar widget, but rather a custom area on the main page (using two columns) for where I want to display the archives page. Do you know if there is a shortcode for that.
Thanks for your helpful words on where and how to post this kind of stuff in the future. I will definitely do that moving forward.
I appreciate all of your time! Thank you.
Brittany
1. The theme Twenty Twelve DOES default display a post’s featured image on the default homepage (ie, Settings> Reading: checked “Your latest posts”, which calls the template: index.php). I just activated that theme on a test site and each pst in the homepage list displayed it’s thumbnail.
Have you set a featured image for each of your posts?
Are you using the default home page? If not, you may want to make a child theme (knowledge of PHP and FTP required) in which your homepage does display post thumbs. Or you may find a better solution at the above theme support link .
2. You’re in luck re: a shortcode embed of archive links: Jetpack (and maybe other plugins) provides one:
http://jetpack.me/support/shortcode-embeds/
Lots of options for that shortcode:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/
