Add the following function in function.php which is present at the root of theme folder.
function catch_that_image() { global $post, $posts; $first_img = ''; ob_start(); ob_end_clean(); $output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches); $first_img = $matches [1] [0]; if(empty($first_img)) { //Defines a default image $first_img = "/images/default.jpg"; } return $first_img; }
Just call the function catch_that_image(), wherever you need to get the image from the article.
e.g.
<img src="<?php echo catch_that_image();?>" width="75" height="75" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" align="left" hspace="5" />