[dmcleman]

I’ve spent a couple of days customising the template and I am amazed at this situation:

• When I include an image in the excerpt (i.e. before the ‘more link’ tag) the image does not appear on my blog page of excerpts – instead the ‘Continue reading’ link is added to the text.
• When I don’t include an image in the excerpt then no ‘Continue reading’ link is added. This is incredible as clearly every excerpt requires a ‘read more’ link whether or not it contains an image, that is the purpose of an excerpt.
• If I select a featured image in the editor in order to get a ‘read more’ link then this image does appear in the excerpt but in front of the text.

I would like my excerpts to reflect the posts, i.e. if I have written text and inserted an image then show both and in the order how I created the post. I want to show an image in the correct position if I’ve included it in the excerpt and then provide a ‘read more’ link.

Could you suggest how to modify the code to create simple excerpts?

As a very rough workaround I could post a featured image of a transparent png in order to get the ‘read more’ link. But I would rather sort out the code…

[Sakin]

@dmcleman: For this check our your “Content layout” in “Appearance => Theme Options” and change it to “Show full content” then only your more link will work. Otherwise it will display the excerpt text with featured image that you have add in the post.

[dmcleman]

Thank you so much for pointing this out, and for getting back so quickly. That really is excellent service. I thought I was facing a huge coding job to get it to work the way I wanted.

I had no idea this would bring back the standard WordPress excerpt, it looked like it would display the full posts.

Thanks again.

[Sakin]

@dmcleman: Yes sorry for the confusion and have a nice day.

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