Title: Thumbnails using a posts excerpt
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Thumbnails using a posts excerpt

 *  [joshuatw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuatw/)
 * (@joshuatw)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-using-a-posts-excerpt/)
 * I’m working on a photography portfolio site, I’m using WordPress for the back
   end. Each page will have one photograph. I’d like to have three thumbnails on
   each page. One for the next picture (on right), one for the current picture (
   middle), and one for the previous picture (left). I plan on using an excerpt 
   for each post for the thumbnails. Is there a way to to do this using wordpress?
   
   Below are some screenshots of the page and the thumbnail section.
 * [http://www.incer.net/portfolio/screenshot.jpg](http://www.incer.net/portfolio/screenshot.jpg)
 * [http://www.incer.net/portfolio/thumbnails.jpg](http://www.incer.net/portfolio/thumbnails.jpg)

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-using-a-posts-excerpt/#post-450990)
 * I didn’t look at your screenshots, but the_excerpt as it is won’t allow for images,
   or any html tags for that matter.
 * [http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/](http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/)
 * Will allow you to define which html tags are recognized.
 * I’ve accomplished using CSS showing a thumbnail on the home page, and the full
   size image on single post view, if you’d like to know more about that, I’ll provide
   a link to a short tutorial I wrote up on my blog.
 *  Thread Starter [joshuatw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuatw/)
 * (@joshuatw)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-using-a-posts-excerpt/#post-451009)
 * What markup would I need to use in order to display the excerpts that I want,
   the current post the previous and next post?
 * Also, a link to the tutorial would be alot of help.
 * Thanks.
 *  [miroslav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miroslav/)
 * (@miroslav)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-using-a-posts-excerpt/#post-451137)
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-using-a-posts-excerpt/#post-451185)
 * [Tutorial on my blog](http://www.miklb.com/blog/2006/my-site/thumbnails-on-home-page/)
 *  [miroslav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miroslav/)
 * (@miroslav)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-using-a-posts-excerpt/#post-451228)
 * I am not sure, but I think the [`<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt_rss)
   tag — although, originally created for different purpose — takes all html code
   over to the index pages. This would include the thumbnail image as well. Haven’t
   tested it, but it might be worth the try.

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