As an experienced CMS website operation personnel of a security company, I am well aware of the crucial role of thumbnails in content display and user experience.A meticulously set or automatically generated thumbnail, which can effectively attract readers' attention, improve click-through rate, and help with search engine optimization, allowing your content to stand out among numerous pieces of information.AnQi CMS offers flexible and powerful thumbnail management features, whether it is manually selected or intelligently extracted and uniformly processed, it can meet your needs for efficient operation.

Next, I will explain in detail how to set or automatically extract thumbnails for documents in AnQiCMS.

Understand the role of thumbnails in AnQiCMS.

In AnQiCMS, thumbnails are important visual elements of the content, used in list pages, related recommendations, search results, and other scenarios to summarize the content theme in the form of small-sized images.This not only optimizes the page layout, making information easier to browse, but also directly affects the attractiveness of the content and the user's click decision.AnQi CMS provides thumbnail support for various content types such as articles, products, categories, and single pages, and ensures the uniformity of the website's image style through global configuration.

Manual setup and intelligent extraction of document thumbnails

AnQiCMS provides two main thumbnail retrieval methods for rich text content such as articles and products:

Manually upload or select a thumbnail

When creating or editing a document (such as an article, product), you will find a section named "Document Image", which is the location for setting the thumbnail. You can set it through the following methods:

  • Upload a new image：Directly upload a picture from the local computer as the thumbnail of the document.
  • Select an existing picture from the image library.If you have previously uploaded images to the AnQiCMS image resource library, you can directly select one to associate.

In this way, you can finely control the thumbnails of each document to ensure that the visual effects match the content.

The content image is automatically extracted as a thumbnail.

The intelligence of AnQiCMS lies in its automatic extraction feature. When you are editing a document and have not manually uploaded or selected a thumbnail, but the document content (within the text editor) contains images, the system will automatically identify and extract the content from within the images.the first imageas the thumbnail of the document.

This feature greatly simplifies the content publishing process, especially for articles rich in images, eliminating the need for manual settings, ensuring that each document has a default visual cover.

It is noteworthy that for the content of document classification and single-page structures, the thumbnail settings are usually done manually by uploading.Since they do not contain rich text content that can be automatically extracted like the main text of the article, operation personnel need to actively upload or select images as their thumbnails.

Global thumbnail processing strategy and size configuration

To achieve a unified visual style of the website and optimize the image loading performance, AnQiCMS provides powerful global thumbnail configuration options. These settings can be adjusted in the "Content Settings" panel in the background, affecting all thumbnails generated by the system: