WordPress Themes and the use of Excerpts

I was working with Jeanine of Nientjuh.nl on some problem solving of her WordPress based blog.
Dennis who upgraded her Blog also put on a new Theme Dawnbreak

Jeanine already has her own favourite theme up now and that does suite her site a lot better.

I have the Dutch Translation of Dawnfield now ready and will put it up in the next few days on Hummerbie.nl

This template is made for one featured post, but also uses the excerpts functions for the rest of the Frontpage, which has the potential to give this site a great look.

To accomplish that you need to add a picture and an some text into the field Excerpts "Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content".
But to get an image there your need to use pure HTML code.

Which af course is not alwasy that easy.... but here is WordPress to the rescue.
Just put in the image you want (not to big !) into your post and then switch to HTML view.
Copy the code that is generated by WordPress and copy (or cut) it and past it into the Excerpts field.

Add some short description of the post and hit publish and your done.
Now take a look at your Frontpage and you will see the nice little pictures and short descriptions showing.

But even if your Blog Theme doesn't support this functions for the frontpage, most of theme will use it for the Archives.
Using the Excerpt field with pictures will create mucht beter archives for your users and if doen right also for Search Engines.
Here is an example of my Dutch blog on WordPress Zoekmachine Optimalisatie