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  lisalovesdesign · Member · Jun 14, 2013 at 1:10 pm

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  Hi,

  I think my problem is simple and I just don´t know what search term to find the answer.

  My category archives are displaying as just the title of the posts. What I would like is for the image and a short snippet of text to display from each post – just like it does on my home page. For example – take a look at ´English Tips´ in my top menu. When you click on this page it just displays a list of blog article titles and not as a readable feed.

  Thanks in advance!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 14, 2013 at 7:55 pm

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  My category archives are displaying as just the title of the posts.

  Ummm … no they aren’t
  Click Monthly Archives: June 2013 and there’s a tile and an excerpt
  http://absoluteaviation.wordpress.com/2013/06/

  Whether or not full posts, permalinked or thumbnails are displayed on Categories Pages and Archives pages is theme dependent ie. it’s coded into the template and we cannot edit templates or themes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/

  In the majority of themes, posts on category or other archive pages show up just as they do on the main posts page in the blog and the number displayed is also the same. (See this page > Settings > Reading and note how many posts you choose there sets it for all). But in some themes only the beginnings of posts are shown, and in a few themes you only get titles or thumbnails. See here for a theme list of themes that may display the way you want > Category/archive pages: full posts or not http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/

  What I would like is for the image and a short snippet of text to display from each post

  If the theme has an active excerpt box below the post editor, you can control the length of the excerpt displayed and insert a thumbnail image.

  You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy the code you want in the excerpt, paste it into the Excerpt box, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
  This will have to be done on every post.