Title: [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Thumbnails
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Thumbnails

 *  [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maddogmike/)
 * (@maddogmike)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-daves-wordpress-live-search-thumbnails/)
 * I love the thumbnail feature, but how does it determine which graphic to display?
   I would expect it to just use the first graphic, but often it chooses something
   further down the page. Also, often times it misses the graphic altogether and
   shows nothing when it should show something.
 * thanks,
    Mike
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/daves-wordpress-live-search/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/daves-wordpress-live-search/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Dana Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csixty4/)
 * (@csixty4)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-daves-wordpress-live-search-thumbnails/#post-2228250)
 * Hi Mike!
 * The algorithm used to pick the image is pretty straightforward:
 * 1. If the post has a thumbnail, it uses that
    2. If there’s no thumbnail, it 
   pulls the image attachment with the lowest menu_order.
 * In looking into this, it looks like the original source of the attachment-handling
   code dates back to 2008 and might not be applicable now that we have much better
   media handing. In fact, the posts you aren’t seeing thumbnails for probably get
   all their images from the Media Library, not the old-fashioned attachment mechanism.
 * I’ve never seen this because I use post thumbnails on my blog. But I’m surprised
   it hasn’t come up sooner.
 * I was wondering what the big feature would be in the next version. Guess I know
   now 🙂
 * – Dave
 *  Plugin Author [Dana Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csixty4/)
 * (@csixty4)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-daves-wordpress-live-search-thumbnails/#post-2228350)
 * Hello again,
 * The Current dev version of Dave’s WordPress Live Search has a new algorithm for
   picking thumbnail images. If you’re still out there, would you mind grabbing 
   a copy at [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/daves-wordpress-live-search.zip](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/daves-wordpress-live-search.zip)
   and giving it a try?

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 * Last reply from: [Dana Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csixty4/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-daves-wordpress-live-search-thumbnails/#post-2228350)
 * Status: not resolved