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Josh, for question number 3, in order for the thumbnail to show up, you must add a picture to the gallery for that post, but do not place it in the actual post. It will then show up on the thumbnail.

The way that site is doing it is through a gif. If you look at the css you can see the following that applies to each list item in that ul:

.entry ul li {
background: url(https://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/MyResume/wp-content/themes/MyResume/images/check.gif) no-repeat 0% 50%;
display: block;
float: left;
padding: 10px 0px 0px 30px;
width: 190px;
}

Please give us a link to the site so that we can look at it and help you out.

What you want to do is go into your style.css and change the line of code that follows:

.art-Post-body {
padding: 7px;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}

so that it looks like this:

.art-Post-body {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}

So you are just removing the line that says:
padding: 7px;

I was able to do this with a WP_query object. I found most of the information here: https://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/

It seems to have broken my archives and tag cloud though. I’m not sure how to fix that so be careful if you are using multiple loops because this could very well mess up other parts of your site.

I’m sorry. I forgot that my code for the archives is actually in the sidebar I made for the blog posts. Here it is

<div id="leftCol">
		<div class="smodule tiyellow">
			<h3><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleDiv('mydiv43');">Sproutians</a></h3>
            <div id="mydiv43" style="display: block;">
            	<div class="bgRepeat"><div class="bgBottom"><div class="bgTop">
					<ul class="authorList">
                		<?php wp_list_authors(); ?>
					</ul>
 					<div class="clear"></div>
				</div></div></div>
			</div>
		</div>
		<div class="smodule">
			<h3><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleDiv('mydiv83');">Tag Cloud</a></h3>
			<div id="mydiv83" style="display: block;">
            	<div class="bgRepeat"><div class="bgBottom"><div class="bgTop">
            		<?php if ( function_exists('wp_tag_cloud') ) : ?>
						<ul class="tagCloud">
							<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=6&largest=18&order=RAND'); ?>
						</ul>
					<?php endif; ?>
					<div class="clear"></div>
				</div></div></div>
			</div>
        </div>
		<div class="smodule">
			<h3><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleDiv('mydiv84');">Archives</a></h3>
			<div id="mydiv84" style="display: block;">
				<div class="bgRepeat"><div class="bgBottom"><div class="bgTop">
					<span class="archive">
						<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=12&show_post_count=1'); ?>
					</span>
					<div class="clear"></div>
				</div></div></div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>

I figured it out. I had left a table tag off. I went through that code for 4 hours and didn’t see it until going back after a few days later. I feel stupid. This is a really good contact form plugin though. Super easy to use and customize to what you want!