Headache on this theme regarding some code.

that is in your code

<h6><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h6>

									<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"
									class="readmorelink">Read More</a>

and that is exactly what you get on your page in the browser.

if you want to show the excerpt, you probably need to ‘borrow’ some code from the ‘popular post’ section; maybe something as simple as <?php the_excerpt(); ?>.

try and change the lines above into:

<h6><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h6>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
									<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"
									class="readmorelink">Read More</a>

on a closer look, it seems that you are editing the wrong template file, as the html in the ‘more’ section shows this above each posts:

<div style="height: 304px;" class="postblock">
								<div class="postblockwrap">
									<h6>....

where this particular bit style="height: 304px;" is not in the code you posted.

i am talking about the html part of the code – which shows different on your site than in your posted section of code; therefore the posted code does most likely not belong to the template that is responsible for showing the front page.

question: is there possibly another template file to show the front page?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

ok – i found out that this style="height: 304px is inserted by some javascript – you might be editing the right file after all.

do you have any cache software activated that would stop your site showing latest changes?

instead of
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

(which obviously does no output anything, despite being in the original code of the theme)

try:
<?php echo apply_filters('get_the_excerpt', $post->post_content); ?>

(which should, in theory, create an automatic excerpt; it will not use a manually entered one)

or try to output the full content with:
<?php the_content(); ?>

ps:
there is always the chance that a plugin is interfering:
if anything alse fails, try and deactivste all plugins, and if the issue is then resolved, re-activate one plugin after the other to see which is causing it.

I like the way the image is also involved, just need to cut the text or limit it somehow.

is that done with ‘the_content()’ ?

if so, instead of <?php the_content(); ?>

you could try these lines of code:

<?php $text = get_the_content();
$words = explode(' ', $text, 80);
array_pop($words);
$text = implode(' ', $words);
echo '<br/>' . apply_filters('the_content', $text);
?>

adust the number 80 to fit the space.

however, i would still rather like to find the real cause why ‘the_excerpt()’ is returning nothing …