Have you ever noticed blogs that feature some of their top posts using a thumbnail (picture), rather than simply displaying a link to the post? This is a popular trend around the blogosphere, and the use of images seems to help attract traffic to these posts.
WordPress Garage recently wrote a post explaining how any WordPress user can do this entitled Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the homepage. I recommend checking this out if you are interested in setting something like this up on your WordPress blog.
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.
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Hi Kyle,
I had the exact problem you stated, my author archive went to
/author/Jordan%20Godbey
and my nicename in the database was "Jordan ...
Liked the "SimpleWP Theme". Neat and clean. Over all good collection of themes. 
The new download link for the wordpress help sheet:
http://wpcandy.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/WordPress-Help-Sheet.pdf 
really nice theme.thanks a lot 
Open php.ini file and increase the size. 
I have tested and used a plugin called Post Avatar. It requires that you make a library of thumbs, and manually chose one for each post. I have used it on a test site: <a href=”http://www.comehometodinnerchicago.com/”Come Home to Dinner”
I use custom fields to make thumbnails also. Looks like we are using the same theme! Its neat to see how other people have modified it in their own way. I like what you have done with it.
WordPress Garage recently wrote a post explaining how any WordPress user can do this entitled Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the homepage. I recommend checking this out if you are interested in setting something like this up on your WordPress blog.
nice thanks for sharing wonderful post.
Here I have another tutorial on how to make your first image post to be a thumbnail automatically Without Custom field and Featured image and without taking your time editing cropping thumbnail of your post.
Automatic WordPress Thumbnail Without Custom field and Featured image