By codebutcher on

I'm seeing a lot of wordpress sites like http://michaelhyatt.com/ in which the "popular posts" in the side bar has a thumbnail pic. Of course, that's what I want to add to my site.

A bit of the details...
I'm running 6.x and have cck, image, and imagecache modules.
My site is 99% blog posts.

From what I've read, I can set up an imagecache to create a thumbnail for me. My confusion is where/how it is implemented.

My blogs all have at least one image (usually just one image). I want the thumbnail to be created the first time I create a new blog or, in the case of existing blogs, the first time a person views that blog node. Of course I don't want them to see the thumbnail in my teaser display or my full node display. I only want it in places like the "popular posts." For this reason, I'm thinking I'll have to modify THAT View to add that image field. That part I understand.

So my question is how drupal automatically create a thumbnail from an image when I add that image to a blog. BTW, when I create the blog post, I use the latest FKEditor (I think called CKEditor) to upload the image. I don't want to replace the uploaded image - I want to create a secondary thumbed image.

I'm rambling and I think you get the idea. All help is appreciated.

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Adam S commented

Use quicktabs module and create a view with a thumbnail field and title field.

If something calls imagecache and there is nothing cached imagecache will then do the work to make the correct sized image. Just when asked, last minute.