[Reggie]

The featured image shows up on the excerpt page but disappears when one clicks through to the full post

[Kay]

That’s how it’s supposed to work actually. If you want that image in the post as well, just manually insert it in the post.

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[Petrol]

I came upon the same problem with Nirvana theme and was afraid that would be the answer…

Could you reconsider this, though? I use “full post” with <!–more–> tag on category / archive / main page of my blog, but still use excerpts, too. Here’s why:
1) Excerpts are “picked up” by Facebook as a link description and I have to keep them really short if I want them to appear in full on Facebook.
2) Using <!–more–> gives me much more freedom – I can have relatively long “intros” to my posts, and can have them formatted: divided into short paragraphs, bullet-listed when necessary, hyperlinked (while technically it’s possible for excerpts too, I treat them as plain text, since they’re used by Facebook). Additionaly, text before <!–more–> is actually the very beginning of the article; excerpt can be just about from anywhere, it doesn’t even have to be “excerpt” at all.

So, I can effectively disable excerpts on the blog (and in fact I did), but they’re still usable. Problem is, disabling excerpts disables also featured images. Of course I can insert the manually, but I then I won’t be able to change their size globally (and some time in the future I’ll probably want my main column to be wider, since display resolutions get higher and higher – and I’d have to reformat every single opening picture).

Also, there’s possibly a second aspect: Facebook may be treating featured images with higher priority when fetching the images to accompany a posted link. Now it’s a pain in the neck and I usually have to go through open graph debugger to be able to use the correct picture when posting a link to my facebook fanpage. I was hoping that using featured images would help me with it.

BTW, I couldn’t get my Google Analytics code to work whem pasting it as the theme’s “Custom javascript” (I eventually just copied it into the footer.php). I guess that the reason is that GA is actually two scripts, but the “custom javascript” feature erases all the <script> tags.

PS. Nice theme otherwise : )

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