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How to show in line photos on Simple theme front page

December 12, 2022 at 11:46 pm #8926

[anonymous]

On the live preview of the Simple theme, the posts on the front page are full length with photos included. How is this accomplished? If I set the excerpt length to -1 or 9999 the full text is shown but still no photos within the post. I also see that I can include the featured image, but that isn’t what I’m looking for. Thank you.

December 13, 2022 at 9:33 am #8931

Bob

Look at the theme settings and make sure the featured image is enabled.

December 13, 2022 at 5:31 pm #8938

[anonymous]

I don’t think that setting does what I am looking for. The photos on the live preview are a post image full and a post image wide shown on the front page. The featured image does not appear to be shown.

December 13, 2022 at 7:02 pm #8939

[anonymous]

It also appears to have all text and formatting from the post on the front page.

December 14, 2022 at 9:02 am #8948

Bob

I’m sorry. I didn’t understand what you were saying — can you clarify? Any explanation screenshot, video etc…

December 14, 2022 at 9:09 pm #8951

[anonymous]

The Example displays everything on the front page exactly as it is on the post page

Whereas mine with excerpt length set to -1 Has no formatting and no images shown and the full post shown without the last word

January 4, 2023 at 12:18 am #9053

[anonymous]

Is this a setting or more custom?

January 4, 2023 at 9:48 am #9056

[anonymous]

Try adding a “Read more” to your posts in the post editor. This should turn everything above the “Read more” divider into a “custom excerpt” that Publii displays with formatting included.

You’ll notice that the posts on the Live Preview of the Simple theme all have “Continue reading” links – this is why.