Title: Teaser Thumbnail Image???
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Teaser Thumbnail Image???

 *  [kforeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kforeman/)
 * (@kforeman)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/teaser-thumbnail-image/)
 * How do I add a thumbnail to my teasers? I added a post image to the post, but
   that makes that image have to be the first thing in the post, which I do not 
   want. I tried adding an image url to a Post as that posts Thumbnail, (which does
   work inserting that image into the teaser), but it inserts it large! Which means
   I would have to make a new sizes image for each post thumbnail image to be small
   enough and added it separately with its own url. AH! Any advise on just being
   able make an image from within the post the post teaser thumbnail?
 * [http://www.paintersjourneyblog.com](http://www.paintersjourneyblog.com)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/teaser-thumbnail-image/#post-2074628)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails)
 *  Thread Starter [kforeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kforeman/)
 * (@kforeman)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/teaser-thumbnail-image/#post-2074890)
 * Thank you Esmi, but that link doesn’t tell me anyway to achieve the goal other
   than having to save a separate image to load its url as the thumbnail for each
   post, since I do not want to load a “post image” tied to each post that has to
   display at the top of post.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/teaser-thumbnail-image/#post-2074892)
 * Try re-reading the page at the link above.
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/teaser-thumbnail-image/#post-2074894)
 * 1) Enable Post Thumbnail support
    2) Define a custom image size to display with
   your Post excerpts, using `add_image_size( 'excerpt-thumbnail', $w, $h );` in`
   functions.php` 3) Wherever you output your Excerpts (via `the_excerpt()`), add
   a call to `the_post_thumbnail()`, e.g. change this:
 *     ```
       <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       ```
   
 * To this:
 *     ```
       <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'excerpt-thumbnail' ); ?>
       <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       ```
   
 * 4) Upload/Attach an image, and assign it as the “Featured Image”
 * And also: what Esmi said. That Codex page is your friend.

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/teaser-thumbnail-image/#post-2074894)
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