WordPress 2.9 latest feature that lets users post thumbnail images in their post excerpts has certain limitations which makes me refrain from using this feature. This new feature however will be great if you are planning to use your Theme like a magazine style layout with thumbnail images fixed on a certain spot.
To make the thumbnail really presentable, there are some extra codes that you have to add in. For example, if you want to wrap the text excerpts round the image, you will have to use this code in your template files instead of the one I gave in my earlier post.
<?php the_post_thumbnail(array( 200,200 ), array( 'class' => 'alignleft' )); ?>
The ‘200′ specifies the size of the image and the ‘alignleft’ will flush the image to the left side. Though we can specify these classes when we post our thumbnails, the text will not wrap around the image. Adding that new array will make the text wrap round the image.
However, doing it this way has 2 disadvantages. The thumbnail will always be slotted to the left and it will always be 200 x 200 pixels. If you like a magazine style layout, this will look real neat, but if you are like me, and wants your front page images to vary, then, I am afraid you will not like it very much.
Another thing to note is, this new feature only works best of you are not using a third party plugin to display front page excerpts. The default WordPress codes strips all html formatting in the excerpts, if you have any links or images on the top of your page before the cut off line, then it will not be displayed in the front page excerpts. So even if you post a different image at the top your single post page before the cut off line, the image will not appear in your home page together with the thumbnail.
Some third party plugins like the one I am using here retains the html formatting for the excerpts, thus if i place my image at the top of my post, I will have 2 images appearing tfor the same excerpt. That looks really ugly.
There are may more classes you can add to the function call in your index php file, but the one I mentioned above should do just fine for most. However if you are the kind that must have everything just because it is available, read up, Using The New Post Thumbnail Feature In WordPress 2.9 by Matthias Kretschmann.
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I like my images to be different depending on the article! Anyways I never found that thumbnail function!
I also wanted to try front page short posts, but that doesn’t seem to work as well or I am doing something wrong?
And third I wanna nest my comments like in here when u reply to someone, but apparently the default WP check marks do nothing and I have to modify the CSS?
For front page short post, if you wanna to do it manually, use the ‘more’ in your text editor. Though a slight hassle, you can have a choice of where to end your short post.
Alternatively, you can change the < ?php the_content> to < ?php the_excerpt> in your index php. It automates the process but the default cut off is 50 words, so some words might be cut off midway. You can specify the number of words.
Both this method strips off all html formatting so no images will be displayed in the front page.
I prefer to use the Fancy Excerpt Plugin. It keeps all html formatting and it does not cut off words midway. Just type ‘fancy excerpt’ under Pluigin- Add New in your Dashboard and install it from there.
Threaded comments only works with Themes that are made for WP 2.7 and above. To make your theme for work with Threaded comments, follow the instructions in this post.
http://blogigs.com/how-to-upgrade-the-pressrow-theme-to-wordpress-2-8-compatible/
It works the same for all themes. Might get screwed up in your first attempt so it is best to have the original files backed up first.
OR, the easiest way out, replace your theme with one that is fully compatible. There are so many nice and free themes out there.
Thank you, I actually found a partial way in the Pro Blog Design site, then manually edited the part that sends u to the middle of the page where the article continues instead from the top!
Of course i got it wrong few times
and my blog went off, with some strange errors, but at the end I got it!
What’s a good font to use with Thumbnails? I see you don’t have that problem, but I sometimes get half of the sentence on the right of the Thumbnail and the other below it, and I have to rephrase to fix it.
I’ve been trying to find all day a good looking font, but wherever I go they say stick with the safe ones that everyone has, Arial,Verdana,Tahoma etc
Perhaps
write an article that explains a little about the fonts and which r good ones for the readers etc! Just an idea 
Thanks
Hi Mitco,
Sorry to say, but good looking fonts are what they are, “not safe’ LOL.
Reason being, some computers might not have those fonts installed so they will be seeing the default seriff or sans seriff fonts. Especially so for those who are using Macs. Some of their fonts are named differently even though they are the same. So the age old advise still stands. Use web safe fonts so everyone can see the same thimg
There are CSS codes and javascrpits to display different fonts though, but I am too lazy to delve into it as Internet Explorer always screws it up for me.
About problem with your sentences and and your thumbnails. I think it is not due to the fonts but with the image size or the paddings around th image. Reducing those values might solve the problem.
Mhm, thank you very much
! I did find an implementation and some MS tool but the results were horrible and I stopped messing around 
And you are right, since I always test on FF, and almost never on IE and other browsers it would be a problem for users that r not using FF