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Why doesn't my post display properly when I paste it on Facebook?

Hello, when I try to paste a post on FB only picture of the post is display and the site’s www address. There’s no post title and post excerpt. I attach two screeen shosts. First shows pasting of my post: https://bukrower.pl/blog/strefy-zmian-w-triathlonie/ Second shows how I’d like it to look like: I’m sure that it displayed … Read more

Randomizing post order on posts page

I use the posts page to display work samples that I set up as individual posts. The chronological order in which posts appear makes no sense for what’s essentially a portfolio page. I do load randomized posts in a sidebar on my samples pages, but that’s not the same thing as randomizing the posts on … Read more

Remove indent/padding on featured images (masonry)

My posts’ home page is set up using masonry in 2 columns. The right (and only) sidebar also displays related posts. In the Customizer (Layout/Blog), I’ve set featured images to appear as follows: Location: Below title Alignment: Left These settings apply to archives, posts, and pages. My problem is that on the Posts page and … Read more

Next / Previous Links in Blog Posts

Hi, I’m having some trouble with the next/previous links in the blog posts. Some blog post titles are really, really long, and so they look less than beautiful. A few solutions would work for me, but I haven’t been able to get anything to work yet: 1. Clip the text past a certain number of … Read more

How do I link blog post authors to their BP profiles?

Hi Tom and folks, Can someone help me with this? I’m creating a social network (for adults only) using GP, and one of the abilities for members is the ability to blog. All blogs are shown on the front page, and I want the author names to link to their BP profiles instead of the … Read more

Full width blog posts

Searched the forum already and have seen some misc responses to this, but is there a way through the GP options or programmatically (i.e. not through CSS) to by default have all posts have the full width meta option?

Would like specific blog categories on different pages

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to have specific categories of blog posts on different pages? For example, I have some education related posts and would like to feature them on a separate page from a drop down menu title Education Resources. I know people can navigate the them from the category … Read more

Read more button for blog posts page

Hi Tom, I’m just working on this site http://clearfocus.consulting and am using your fab Show Posts plugin for the home page. On the blog posts page though http://clearfocus.consulting/blog/ I would like to remove the Read More words that link to each blog post and instead, have a Read More button displayed under the excerpt, the … Read more

removing "prev" and "next" links from blog posts

Hi, Tom: Sorry to bother you again. I’m using blog posts to perform two specific and very different functions. 1. Display work samples 2. Add entries to a “news and views” section that functions like a blog The two types of posts show up under two different menu items, each based on post categories. The … Read more

No image in FB upload

Hi Tom, When my blog posts upload to Facebook, the left hand box is blank, where other people have an image appear. Where do I insert an image when creating my blog post in your template so that Facebook will pick it up and display it? All blog posts lack the image in the left … Read more