Pictures and links don't show on my home page and it's making me crazy

  • Hi.

    I’m a novice in all things WordPress and CSS and blog. I’ve created a blog using the Eighties theme, however when I post pictures and links they don’t show on my static home page.

    If you look at this site, links and pictures are accessible/visible from the home page. It’s not necessary to open each post: https://paperchambers.com/. It’s not my site, but this person has also used the Eighties theme.

    This ended up being so frustrating to me that I deleted everything and lost all of the changes that I’d made to the style sheet just to start over, because I was afraid that it was probably because of me being too creative in the style sheet, but alas, nothing changed. So now I’m left with a page that looks all sad:

    https://fortressofsolitude.dk/

    I’ve made a couple of test entries so that you can see what I’m talking about.

    I just want it to be a nice, fluent, static/whatever page where you don’t have to press each post to be able to look at a picture or access a link. Like the Paperchambers one above. Does anyone understand what I’m trying to say and can anyone pleeeease tell me that I’ve been silly and that the answer is really, really simple.

    Sad smiley.
    Thank you.

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  • There are two types of pages in WordPress

    • Static page (not a blog)
    • Blog page

    Many people want their website to have a static homepage, with perhaps a blog on a different page. Your website FortressOfSolutitude appears to be a blog homepage. As such, it shows only the title of the blog entry (the post) and an exerpt of each blog post, but not the full text.

    In order to see the pictures and links that you embed into a blog post, you need to click the title of the blog entry, and then the page for that specific blog entry will be displayed with the full text (not just the summary excerpt) of the blog post, and with the pictures and links you have embedded into the post.

    There is also a method to cause the full text of the most recent blog entries, including the pictures and links you embed in them, to appear on the homepage instead of the summaries, but that method may vary from theme to theme. In the Eighties theme, I manually edited one of the theme’s template files–

    wp-content/themes/eighties/content.php

    Near the bottom of that file, you will see this:

    <div class="entry-summary">
	<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->

    If you change entry-summary to entry-content and the_excerpt() to the_content() and then upload that edited file to your website, replacing the “content.php” file in the Eighties theme directory, your homepage will display your blog entries in full, including the pictures and links.

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