One of our primary goals as designers is to constantly improve the usability of our websites and blogs.  Content, while very important, doesn’t help readers if they can’t easily get to it.  In this post, I’d like to outline several ways to quickly improve a blogs usability.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily add thumbnails, lead image, and other extras to individual posts in WordPress. These images can be shown on the front page, archives, search pages, etc – but appear outside of the content, giving you full control of their placement and style.