Title: Plugin and Custom Fields Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Plugin and Custom Fields * [darkarcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkarcher/) * (@darkarcher) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/) * Hi, guys. A couple of months ago I started a photoblog using wordpress. Then I decided to rearrange the archive.php so that I can see thumbnails and not the whole posts. * Well, I did it with the custom field, but it is a kinda annoying to add a new one in every new post. * So, is it possible to use a plugin that will do the job instead of me? What I want it to do is to add a custom field with a key “thumb” and a value link to the thumbnail of the image in the post. * [http://caughtinamoment.net/2008/07/](http://caughtinamoment.net/2008/07/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Thread Starter [darkarcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkarcher/) * (@darkarcher) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830330) * Anyone? * [krembo99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krembo99/) * (@krembo99) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830336) * I think that doing so with custom fields is the best way. On my webpage I did a similar thing , but without custom fields, abd it is wrong (although it works fine) See it here : [http://www.krembo99.com](http://www.krembo99.com) Over there I used the template files to produce that effect, and used the Excerpt for the thumbnail path, but like i said, custom fields are the way to do it. * [flick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mosey/) * (@mosey) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830337) * I’m sure I’ve seen at least two plugins that help to automatically ‘retrieve’ an image from a post and display just the image elsewhere. The most recent one being [Get Post Image](http://www.andrewgrant.org/get-post-image) (the site has over-used its bandwidth for the moment) and I think it does still work with the latest version of WordPress. * If you would like to use custom fields, and don’t want to keep adding a new key, perhaps you could look into [More Fields](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/) as it adds a custom field in a more user-friendly manner. * [krembo99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krembo99/) * (@krembo99) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830338) * More Fields is a **GREAT** plugin. But here I do not see how it can help, he will still have to manualy add the thumb. I am sure that WP has the first thumb stored in the DB and that is a way to retrieve it, but I just didn’t find it now, when I will have some free time I will do try to look it uop. A simple query of the right table will do. * [flick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mosey/) * (@mosey) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830339) * [@krembo99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krembo99/): Thanks for your comment. When I was reading DarkArcher’s post, I wasn’t sure if he/she already had a generated thumbnail that just needed to be included with the post. If this was the case, then it would be much easier to use ‘More Fields’ than creating a custom field every time. * However, if the thumbnail is readily available in the database table as you’ve said, then I’d agree that a simple query would suffice as well (although at the moment I wouldn’t have a clue which table to use :D) * [klmathome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/klmathome/) * (@klmathome) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830343) * I did something similar using [Post Thumbs Revisited](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/alakhnors-post-thumb/). It will make any size thumbnail of your first image, and then you use their ` ` tag in your archive/category/search template. Worked for me. [http://www.kylelmartin.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/www.kylelmartin.com?output_format=md) * [iheartpgh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iheartpgh/) * (@iheartpgh) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830414) * [@darkarcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkarcher/) – I have the same question. I am using the theme MiniBlogger – which required me to use the url of the thumbnail in the custom fields. * Is there anyway to automatically add the link to the thumbnail to the custom fields? * I found this plugin but I don’t understand how it is supposed to work. [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpvn-thumbnailer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpvn-thumbnailer/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Plugin and Custom Fields’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [custom field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-field/) * [thumbnails](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/thumbnails/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [iheartpgh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iheartpgh/) * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-custom-fields/#post-830414) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics