How to make thumbnail Image of a post, link to its page?

In Blogger help forum, we had many asking queries regarding how to make a post's thumbnail appear on homepage and get it linked to the post page. So, Let us see how to do that.

(Note - This post is for Blogger's first generation classic themes and not applicable if you are on a new generation responsive templates)

First Backup your template so that you shall restore it if the code doesn't work on your template.
Go to Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML
Press Ctrl + F and find data:post.body
Paste the following code just above the found code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.url != data:post.url'>

<b:if cond='data:post.thumbnailUrl'>

<div class='Image'>

<a expr:href='data:post.url'>

<img expr:src='data:post.thumbnailUrl' style='float:right border-radius:50px; border:5px solid black;height:65px;width:65px;'/>
</a>
</div>

</b:if>
</b:if>
Click Save Template and it is set.

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