Archive show thumbnail

I want to show thumbnails next to my posts in archive page, however it only shows thumbnails if the posts has a featured image.

So I want to show thumbnail for the image attached to the post, but I don’t know how to.

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At the moment I am using the following code to show thumbnails if set as featured.

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
   <?php the_post_thumbnail(thumbnail, array('class' => 'alignleft')); ?>
   </a>
<?php endif; ?>

Any suggestions are appreciated

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  1. You can check if the post as a thumbnail and if not the get the first image in the post ex:

    <?php
    $size = 'thumbnail';
    if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
        ?>
        <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
            <?php the_post_thumbnail($size, array('class' => 'alignleft')); ?>
    
       <?php
    } else {
        $attachments = get_children( array(
            'post_parent' => get_the_ID(),
            'post_status' => 'inherit',
            'post_type' => 'attachment',
            'post_mime_type' => 'image',
            'order' => 'ASC',
            'orderby' => 'menu_order ID',
            'numberposts' => 1)
        );
        foreach ( $attachments as $thumb_id => $attachment ){ //this was missing
            ?>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
            <?php echo wp_get_attachment_image($thumb_id, $size); ?>
            </a>
            ?>
        }
    }
    ?>