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You may remember a previous article I wrote here on JungleJar.com called Using Custom Fields To Post Your Images, but if not, I'm going to reintroduce a few of the code snippets and methods I wrote about in the tutorial about how to save and display image data from custom fields within Wordpress. In this article I'm also going to cover a few of the small yet robust code block methods I myself tend to practice quite a bit that I didn't previously touch on. So, if you're looking for a solid tutorial on how to use Wordpress Custom Fields to display blog post thumbnails in an easy and flexible manner, then this article is for you.

"Use widgets, shortcodes, and/or template tags to easily retrieve and display custom field values for posts or pages. Use widgets, shortcodes, and/or template tags to easily retrieve and display custom field values for posts or pages. The power of custom fields gives this plugin the potential to be dozens of plugins all rolled into one."

Advanced Custom Fields plugin allows developers to take full control of the edit screens & custom field data. Add-ons also allow you to extend the functions even further from limiting characters in a textarea, building unique designed admin pages with the flexible content layout manager to easily including Gravity Forms or Contact Form 7 forms.

"Fully customise WordPress edit screens with powerful fields. Boasting a professional interface and a powerfull API, it's a must have for any web dev Advanced Custom Fields is the perfect solution for any wordpress website which needs more flexible data like other Content Management Systems."

By Alex Denning at Smashing Magazine on April 29, 2010. How did Wordpress evolve so quickly? Custom fields, that's how.

This plugin adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page.

Creating a custom WordPress meta box lets you make clean UI elements for you and your clients. The default WordPress custom fields are functional, but IMHO, and if you can pull it off, using a WordPress meta box is the way to go. It will give your project that professional touch.

Completely Customise your edit pages with an assortment of field types: Wysiwyg, Repeater, text, image, select, checkbox, page link …

"Build and maintain a fully customizable database of participants, members or anything with signup forms, admin backend, custom lists, and CSV support. This plugin offers all the functionality needed to build and maintain a database of people. The database is fully configurable, allowing you to define all the fields of information you want to store for each record. The records can be entered individually in the WordPress admin section, imported with a CSV file, or let the individuals themselves create their own record. Display lists of records can be sorted and filtered by any field, and the result exported as a CSV file."

Shows how the Types WordPress plugin is used to create custom post types, taxonomy and fields.

flutter is a kind of CCK Content Creation Kit for Wordpress, you can create custom fields and groups (example, model, price, picture), retrieve and create templates for your data sets

"UPDATE: Make sure to take out "Take Two" on this concept, with a cleaner method for doing this."

"Cyclone Slider follows the keep it simple mantra. It leverages wordpress' built-in features. It uses custom post for the slideshow, custom fields to store settings, and media uploader for the images. Its simple yet flexible."