nastycanasta

hmmmm, a bigger image worked but I think I’m confused. Isn’t the featured image supposed to be part of the post and not the header image. Is the featured image a header image?

Try this code in your functions.php, this works if you have a featured image uploaded to your post and you want it to show up if you’re using excerpts. You can change the size of the thumbnail in the array

function my_excerpts($content = false) {
        // If is the home page, category, an archive, or search results
	if(is_front_page() || is_home() || is_category() || is_archive() || is_search()) :
		global $post;
		$content = $post->post_excerpt;

	// If an excerpt is set in the Optional Excerpt box

		if($content) :

 the_post_thumbnail(array(200,160), array('class' => 'alignleft excerpt-thumbnail'));
			$content = apply_filters('the_excerpt', $content);

	// If no excerpt is set
		else :
			$content = $post->post_content;
			$excerpt_length = 55;
			$words = explode(' ', $content, $excerpt_length + 1);
			if(count($words) > $excerpt_length) :
				array_pop($words);
				array_push($words, '...');
				$content = implode(' ', $words);
			endif;
			$content = '' . $content . '

';

		endif;
	endif;

// Make sure to return the content
	return $content;

}

add_filter('the_content', 'my_excerpts');

I actually created a new functions.php file with only opening and closing tags and then inserted your code and it worked. Then I tried putting other code and that was saved successfully too. Thanks. What do you think was causing the error?

I probably should have been more clear when I upload a new php file it does have the opening and closing tags on it but it’s blank otherwise. When I put any type of code in between them, I’m still getting the error. And yes, the opening tag is right at the very top with no spaces. Any other suggestions?

Thanks Rev. Voodoo I added it at the end of the file but I think there wasn’t a closing php tag there.

Thanks a lot for your help! Didn’t know that I shouldn’t try to make changes in the default theme