Questions Regarding Parament Theme

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  noblestrogue · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 8:14 pm

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  Hi,

  Have just started on this blogging journey.

  I have a few questions regarding the current theme I have chosen: Parament.

  Firstly this is what I want the main page of the blog to look like: Each post to have a featured image with a short excerpt detailing briefly what the post is about (1st paragraph or whatever) and then a ‘Read More’ link which when clicked takes reader to a new page.

  – My problem is that I can’t seem to set a featured image as there is no featured image uploader on the right hand side of the page.
  – I have an excerpt section where I can insert text, but it doesn’t follow through when the post is published.

  Questions:
  1. Is there a setting I am missing somewhere?
  2. Does the Parament theme support these features?
  3. Is there some sort of CSS code which I need to insert to make the above possible?

  Please help

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  justpi · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 8:44 pm

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  Answers:
  1. No.
  2. No.
  3. No.
  In other words you need a different theme.

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  noblestrogue · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 8:51 pm

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  Ah ok…

  How do you you know when choosing a theme whether it supports featured images and excerpts?

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  justpi · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 9:28 pm

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  Featured images are mentioned in the instructions for each theme or if you filter for “features”:
  http://theme.wordpress.com/
  Custom excerpts aren’t mentioned anywhere: you have to test the theme.
  (I used to test all features of all themes – see my blog.)
  But some themes display excerpts by default: you can see that if you check the theme demo.