Michael Fields

irishblue,
How large is the image that you originally uploaded? if is is smaller than the sizes in Media Settings -> Image sizes then WordPress will not create smaller versions. Try uploading an image larger than your largest setting to see if the options appear.

Yes. Copyright statements like this generally refer to the content rather than the technology used to generate the code that displays it.

Navigate to “Settings” -> “Media” in wp-admin and make sure that the “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)” is not checked. This is the only option in WordPress that would cause an image to be cropped.

There’s a new function in 2.7. for this. Please read:

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Template_Tags/wp_page_menu

Not a plugin, but it does what you need:

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/209656?replies=11

Please use the code from my second post on the thread.
Hope this helps.

This pretty much falls into the category of “if it ain’t broke then don’t try to fix it”. You would have to hack multiple core files to achive this goal with little payout. Updating WordPress would be close to a nightmare. Look into using “Pretty Permalinks” if you are upset with your location bar’s display of your posts.

The answer would be “custom work” using WordPress functionality. This is pretty easy to achieve. Just plug the following code into your themes’ archives.php file make sure you overwrite the Loop that you have in there right now:

<?php
	/* WordPress Loop - Display only linked thumbnails
	==================================================== */
	if (have_posts()) :
		while (have_posts()) : the_post(); update_post_caches($posts);
			$images = get_children(
				array(
					'post_parent' => $post->ID,
					'numberposts' => 1,
					'post_status' => 'inherit',
					'post_type' => 'attachment',
					'post_mime_type' => 'image',
					'order' => 'ASC',
					'orderby' => 'menu_order'
				)
			);

			if ( $images ) {
				foreach ( $images as $id => $image ) {
					$img = wp_get_attachment_thumb_url( $image->ID );
					$link = get_permalink( $post->ID );
					print "\n\n" . '<a  class="alignleft" href="' . $link . '"><img src="' . $img . '" alt="" />';
				}

			}
		endwhile;
		print '<div class="clear"></div>';
	else :
		print '<div class="errorbox">' . __('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.') . '</div>';
	endif;
?>