Title: Topic and Post thumbnails missing
Last modified: December 17, 2020

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# Topic and Post thumbnails missing

 *  Resolved [muranomidwest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muranomidwest/)
 * (@muranomidwest)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/topic-and-post-thumbnails-missing/)
 * I am puzzled as to why there is no way to include post and topic thumbnails in
   an index listing. Honestly, I feel like we should be able to display any type
   of “index” as a list, grid or masonry and include the images in any way we wish.
 * If we’ve gotten past enough security concerns to allow images to be attached 
   or added inline to new posts, why can’t we display the thumbnails in any and 
   all indexes?

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 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/topic-and-post-thumbnails-missing/#post-13804182)
 * I’m sure you don’t mean it, but your post does read as though you feel you should
   have some entitlement that free software with free support works exactly as you
   wish.
 * I’ll read it as a suggestion 🙂 🙂
 * bbpress is not written by me, and is intended as a light forum plugin, indeed
   they say ‘We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing
   for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. ‘
 * I’ve written the style pack plugin to add many things that users have asked for,
   but I’m just a guy in his kitchen, doing this for pleasure and for free.
 * I added the forum thumbnails quite a while ago, as forums are generally created
   in the backend by admins who can load a thumbnail to the custom post type.
 * Topic thumbnails are harder, as they are generally created by front end users,
   and to add the ability to add thumbnails on the front end is not there, so would
   need coding, and then you hit lots of code to control what is uploaded etc. It
   is all quite doable, but not something I’m interested in doing at the moment.
 * The same would apply to the ability to create grids, masonry etc.
 * sorry, but that’s the way it is.
 * Regards
 * Robin

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 * Last reply from: [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/topic-and-post-thumbnails-missing/#post-13804182)
 * Status: resolved