Featured image – Display in Excerpt but not on Post?

  • If you have a spare 5mins would you be able to advise me on something to do with the site, I will be most grateful.

    When I create a Blog post I understand that I can set a ‘Featured Image’ and this is then thumbnailed and used in the excerpt that appears on the front page

    However this then means that the image is displayed huge and stretched on the blog post itself which looks awful, and I can’t see any option to have the featured image on the excerpt only and not the page itself

    I did a quick google but most of the solutions revolve around altering code / adding plug-ins which I have no clue whatsoever about so just wondering if you know an easy solution

    You’d think it would just be a check-box somewhere but I can’t find one

    Thank you v. much

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  • set a ‘Featured Image’ and this is then thumbnailed and used in the excerpt that appears on the front page

    totally depends on the used theme;

    you will probably need to edit some theme templates to change that; for instance index.php and/or single.php (?)

    feel free to post the name and download link of your theme.

    Thread Starter kenty303

    (@kenty303)

    Thanks for your reply

    I couldn’t tell you as I didn’t design the site, but it’s https://www.frontline-construction.co.uk if that helps.

    You’ll see the news items on the lower left side. Currently they have our ‘hammer’ picture as part of the excerpt, presented in normal size.

    When you follow the link it’s stretched across the screen, and I can’t manually remove it as it’s not part of the actual post, it seems

    Your help appreciated

    from the css classes of teh ‘thumbnail’ it does not seem to be using the ‘featured image’ as I assumed;

    because you have a custom coded theme, making any suggestions is very difficult.

    look into the code of single.php to find anything related to those ‘thumbnails’ …

    should be a section with:

    <div class="post-thumbnail">
	????
	</div> 	<!-- end .post-thumbnail -->

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