=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: radukn
Donate link: http://www.cnet.ro/wordpress/thumbnailforexcerpts/
Tags: excerpts, thumbnails
Requires at least: 2.6
Tested up to: 2.7
Stable tag: 1.3
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed...).
== Description ==
There are some solutions for you if you want to show thumbnails near excerpts of your posts. Most of them needs you to work with custom fields. But why, if you already have images in your posts? Why not use those pictures?
Thumbnail For Excerpts search the post for the first image. If exists, than it will search for the thumbnail created by default by WordPress for the image, if it was uploaded from WP administration area. If not, it will show the image itself, but of course, scaled (IMPORTANT: since version 1.2, there is an option to let the plugin to automatically generate the thumbnail where it do no exists.)
Important: Showing thumbnails in excerpts will not *always* look nice. It depends a lot on the theme you choose. Anyway, with some CSS knowledge, it can work nicely. And if you upload photos in posts only from web, it will go 99% perfectly. Make the tests and keep the plugin if you like the results.