what plugin is better to automatically show thumbnail images in excerpts. Please let me know.

This one might work for you http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...-for-excerpts/

can you please build a plugin in the theme itself so that there is no need of external plugins.

I'll add something like that in a later version once my current to-do list is much shorter

Hey Flynn!

What're the chances that you'd publish your todo list as a sticky post? Working under the premise that more information is better than less, we users would have some idea where "we" were headed. You might even agree to receive suggestions as to how we would like your priorities arranged

Believe me, I can think of lots of reasons you might not want to do this. In effect, you're already doing it, but the information is spread around on separate threads. This would centralize the need for both us and you. I offer to "moderate" and try to keep we users polite and respectful.

...just a thought!

There's at least one sticky thread in this forum http://forum.bytesforall.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12 all the time.

It's a To-Do list, listing all open bugs and features. I'll think of a more organized way of listing open bugs, changelogs etc...

I'm using Thumbnails for Excerpts in Atahualpa, and while it looks great, in diagnosing page load times it appears to be displaying a scaled version of the post image, but with the original file size so there is no savings in bandwidth.

I am uploading images using "Image in Post from URL" and have turned on ("TFE_CREATETH","yes") which is supposed to generate a thumbnail upon import.

Anyone else using this plug-in or have ideas about how to get smaller file size thumbnails?

Thanks for noticing that. It IS a problem on my site, I think, since I have a lot of thumbnails loading on the front page.

I have the same problem... using thumbnails for excerpts plugins, I realised what is displayed in not the thumbnail but a scaled version of the full isze image... that will not work on long term...