You must have heard many times that 'A picture is worth a thousand words'. In the case of blogging, this is particularly true. Many blogs use thumbnails, displayed next to post excerpts on their homepage, to visually enhance their blog and give it a more professional look.
In this recipe, I'll show you how you can easily add thumbnails to your homepage, independent of the theme you're using.
This recipe can be achieved on any WordPress theme. So, you don't need anything else except your favorite WordPress theme and a text editor. To add thumbnails to your blog homepage, we'll use custom fields. Custom fields are one of the most powerful WordPress possibilities. It allows you to define a key and give it a value. In your template, you simply have to get the key to display the custom value. Custom fields are individually defined on each post or page.