Title: Plugin: Generate Post Thumbnails
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugin: Generate Post Thumbnails

 *  [hellove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellove/)
 * (@hellove)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-generate-post-thumbnails/)
 * I have been trying to upgrade a blog with thousands of posts from one template
   that did not support thumbnails to one that does. The Generate Post Thumbnails
   plugin worked well, generating the majority of thumbnails and placing them in
   the /public_html/wp-content/uploads in dated folders. These in turn were recognized
   in the Dashboard’s Media Library and by my new template. However, the same plug-
   in seems to PUBLISH the thumbnail version of the first photo in any post above
   the full size version of the first photo of the post. In essence, you have a 
   duplicate picture in every post. I don’t understand code enough to stop the publishing
   if the generated thumbnails or if its even possible. There must be a way to generate
   thumbs and link them to posts without actually publishing them physically?
 * I realize a lot of these types of questions die here. I’ve tried searching for
   answers. I would truly appreciate anyone’s assistance on this.
 * The WordPress Plugin can be found here: <link>[http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/)
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 * Last reply from: [hellove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellove/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-generate-post-thumbnails/)
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