Use standard style excerpts

Set up multiple post pages to display a list of posts using the standard excerpt style in “ProPhoto > Customizer > Excerpts” (examples below).

Enable standard excerpts

Check the box next to each page type for which you want to use excerpts and select the standard style choose_standard_excerpts

Choose standard post excerpt options

You have a few options for how your excerpt and text display together

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1. Image on/off

You don’t have to display an image. You can display text and an image in your excerpt or just text. If you choose “show image” and there is not an image in a post, the excerpt will still display with only text.

2. Image source

Decide whether you want to use ONLY featured images (if any) for excerpt images or whether you want ProPhoto to create an excerpt image from images that were uploaded and inserted into the post. If you choose “always try to include an excerpt image” the featured image will receive first priority. If there is not a featured image, ProPhoto will look to see if there are any images that have been both uploaded and inserted into the post.

3. Image size

Choose either a small “thumbnail”, medium, or the full-sized image in your excerpt. WordPress automatically creates these downsized versions for all of your images when you upload images to posts. By default, WordPress will create smaller copies at these sizes:

small “thumbnail” size = 150 max width, 150 max height
medium size = 300 max width, 300 max height
large size = 1024 max width, 1024 max height

You can specify different sizes to use for all future uploaded images by going to “Settings” > “Media” in WordPress.

You can also select to have WordPress crop small (thumbnail) images to the max width/height, instead of keeping images proportional. The downside is that you will not have control over the way WordPress crops your images – equal amounts will be taken from left/right or top/bottom during cropping. Use featured Images to provide your own cropped image, if necessary.

4. Image alignment

This is fairly self-explanatory, right? You can have the image on the left or right of the excerpt. If you choose the “fullsize” image size then you’ll have an option to to have the image before or after the text.

Here are some examples when different thumbnail sizes and alignments are used: