Home page look

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    letstalkwords · Member ·

    I am using the Sight template for my blog : Let’s talk words.
    Now the active preview of that template shows that I can have photos shown on the home page when I make a post: Sticky post…and I don’t know how to do that.
    My home page just shows the title and a snippet no photo or a video snapshot that is attached to it. This makes the home page very boring.. can you help me fix this pretty please

    http://letstalkwords.wordpress.com/

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hopefully some of what follows will be helpful.

    The theme description for the Sight theme is located here > http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sight/

    This is the live demo that applies to us at WordPress.com http://sightdemo.wordpress.com/

    This theme has a featured post slider and that’s what you see on the demo site ie. on the demo site but I do not see it on your blog.

    Featured Slider
    Sight displays up to 30 of your latest sticky posts that have featured images in a prominent slider on the front page. To add a post to the slider, mark it as sticky http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts and give it a featured image.
    Sight featured images
    Large: 640 x 290 in the Sticky posts slider
    Small: 290 x 290 thumbnails are used on the home, category, tag, archives, and search pages.

    Setting a Featured Image http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/#setting-a-featured-image
    If you don’t see the Featured Image module on your Add New or Edit Post page, please make sure you’ve selected Featured Image in your Screen Options. http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options

    Sight is a theme that provides automatic excerpts on the front page. As it does have an active excerpt box below the post editor, you can control the length of the excerpt displayed and the exact excerpt that is displayed. This is the workaround you can use to override excerpt display on the front page.

    You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy the code for what you wish to appear, paste it into the Excerpt box below the editor, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
    If you want to create your own excerpt for each post then that will have to be done on every post.

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