2 featured images showing at beginning of post

1) On image sizes: Using the WP media manager, images are sized when uploaded based on the settings in effect at that time. WP stores a copy of each size of each image. When you change themes or plugins, WP doesn't automatically generate the new sizes unless you tell it to. You can use the Ajax Thumbnail Rebuild plugin in the WP plugin repo to solve this problem.

2) On double images: Generate uses a home.php template that makes use of Grid loop. If you have an image in your post and images are hard-coded into the home.php template, you'll could see double images.

Hope that helps.

@MacWebgrrl - I can only assume you are using the Generate theme, since you don't say and your link doesn't work.

If you are using Generate, as I said in my previous post, the home page is controlled by home.php. By default, Generate displays 2 featured posts followed by some posts in a grid loop. Generate will grab the image that is attached to the post and display that first, then it will display post content up to a more tag. One way to get rid of the 2nd image is to make sure you only include an image in the post content that is after the more tag. If you want to change the way the grid loop operates, you'll need to edit home.php.

So...

1) I'm guessing you switched to the Generate theme after uploading some of your images? That would explain why the first image on your first post is the wrong size. WP generates image sizes based on the settings in effect when you upload the images. If those settings change, you need to regenerate the images. Visit the WP plugin repo and grab the Ajax Thumbnail Rebuild and run it. That should solve the image sizing problem.

2) Looking at the source of the first image, it appears you put the 2nd image inside H2 tags, followed by a 2nd H2. That might be more obvious in the HTML editor as opposed to the visual editor. I recommend you delete the H2 tags surrounding the image, and delete the image from the post content. That will solve the duplicate image problem on that post.

A bit of unsolicited advice: shorten those permalinks. It's fine to have catchy titles, but the permalink should be short and keyword rich and without stop words.

I haven't used that theme but I see that around line 1307 in the CSS file is what determines the margins around the image. My suggestion would be something like:

.post-image {
border: 0 none;
margin: 0 10px 10px -40px !important;
max-width: none !important;
padding: 0;

}

but you can experiment yourself.

You need to download, install, activate and run a plugin to regenerate your thumbnails, as I previously suggested. That should solve the problem on the 1st home page post. After doing that, post back with your results.

You may have had the theme for some time, but the images were originally uploaded before Generate was your active theme. If Generate was activated at the time you uploaded the images, they would be automatically sized correctly for Generate but not another theme. That's the way thumbnails work in WP.

I just tried inserting < !--more-- > in the post as suggested on the Generate theme setup page and it only showed up as text.

"Insert < !--more-- > into those posts where you want the content to cut off on the main page."

It doesn't work.

And now it's not - after I removed a <span style> that I didn't put in there.

I changed to a different theme instead. Oh, well.