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Hi @Gavin Lewis,

To use the “more” icon, just set “Appearance=> Customize=> Theme Options => Layout Options=> Full Content Display” option to Full Content Display. This will make use of the the “more” icon rather than using Excerpt Length option(This option will ignore Excerpt length(Words)).

Let me know if this helped or not.

Hi @Gavin Lewis,

For this, you will need to do a bit of customization using child theme. Please follow following steps:
1. Create A Child Theme for Catch Evolution. Details for child theme is here

2. Then in your child theme, make a blank file content.php and add in following code:

<?php
/**
 * The child template for displaying content overriding parent theme
 *
 * @package Catch Themes
 * @subpackage Catch_Evolution_Child
 */
?>
<?php
	// get data value from theme options
	global $catchevolution_options_settings;
    $options = $catchevolution_options_settings;
	$layout = $options[ 'sidebar_layout' ];
	if ( $layout == 'no-sidebar-full-width' ) { 
		$imagesize = "featured-slider-larger";
	} 
	else { 
		$imagesize = "featured-slider";
	}
?>

	<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
		<header class="entry-header">
			<?php if ( is_sticky() ) : ?>
				<hgroup>
					<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'catch-evolution' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
					<h3 class="entry-format"><?php _e( 'Featured', 'catch-evolution' ); ?></h3>
				</hgroup>
			<?php else : ?>
			<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'catch-evolution' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
			<?php endif; ?>

			<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type() ) : ?>
                <div class="entry-meta">
                    <?php catchevolution_posted_on(); ?>
                    <?php if ( comments_open() && ! post_password_required() ) : ?>
                    	<span class="sep"> &mdash; </span>
                        <span class="comments-link">
                         	<?php comments_popup_link(__('Leave a reply', 'catch-evolution'), __('1 Comment &darr;', 'catch-evolution'), __('% Comments &darr;', 'catch-evolution')); ?>
                        </span>
                    <?php endif; ?>
                </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
			<?php endif; ?>
		</header><!-- .entry-header -->
        	
		 <?php 
			global $catchevolution_options_settings;
    		$options = $catchevolution_options_settings;
			$current_content_layout = $options['content_layout'];
			$catchevolution_excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
		if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>
            <div class="entry-summary">
                <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
            </div><!-- .entry-summary -->
        <?php elseif ( post_password_required() ) : // Password Protected Post ?>
            <div class="entry-content">
                <?php the_content(); ?>
            </div><!-- .entry-summary -->    
        <?php elseif ( $current_content_layout=='excerpt' && !empty( $catchevolution_excerpt ) ) : // Only display Featured Image and Excerpts if checked in Theme Option ?>
            <div class="entry-summary">
                <?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ):?>
               		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'catch-evolution' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark">
						<?php the_post_thumbnail( $imagesize ); ?>
                   	</a>
                <?php endif; ?>
                <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
            </div><!-- .entry-summary -->
		<?php else : ?>
		<div class="entry-content">
			<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ):?>
           		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'catch-evolution' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark">
					<?php the_post_thumbnail( $imagesize ); ?>
               	</a>
            <?php endif; ?>
			<?php 
			global $catchevolution_options_settings;
			$options = $catchevolution_options_settings;
			$more_tag_text = $options[ 'more_tag_text' ];
			the_content( sprintf( __( '%s', 'catch-evolution' ), esc_attr( $more_tag_text ) ) ); ?>
			<?php wp_link_pages( array( 
                'before'		=> '<div class="page-link"><span class="pages">' . __( 'Pages:', 'catch-evolution' ) . '</span>',
                'after'			=> '</div>',
                'link_before' 	=> '<span>',
                'link_after'   	=> '</span>',
            ) ); 
            ?>
		</div><!-- .entry-content -->
		<?php endif; ?>

		<footer class="entry-meta">
			<?php $show_sep = false; ?>
			<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type() ) : // Hide category and tag text for pages on Search ?>
			<?php
				/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */
				$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'catch-evolution' ) );
				if ( $categories_list ):
			?>
			<span class="cat-links">
				<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted in</span> %2$s', 'catch-evolution' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links', $categories_list );
				$show_sep = true; ?>
			</span>
			<?php endif; // End if categories ?>
			<?php
				/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */
				$tags_list = get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'catch-evolution' ) );
				if ( $tags_list ):
				if ( $show_sep ) : ?>
			<span class="sep"> | </span>
				<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>
			<span class="tag-links">
				<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Tagged</span> %2$s', 'catch-evolution' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links', $tags_list );
				$show_sep = true; ?>
			</span>
			<?php endif; // End if $tags_list ?>
			<?php endif; // End if 'post' == get_post_type() ?>

			<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
			<?php if ( $show_sep ) : ?>
			<span class="sep"> | </span>
			<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>
			<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link(__('Leave a reply', 'catch-evolution'), __('1 Comment &darr;', 'catch-evolution'), __('% Comments &darr;', 'catch-evolution')); ?></span>
			<?php endif; // End if comments_open() ?>

			<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'catch-evolution' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
		</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
	</article><!-- #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->

This will add the featured image in the full content. Let me know if this solves your issue or not.