Title: Blog Preview Formatting Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Blog Preview Formatting Error

 *  [chowardsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chowardsmith/)
 * (@chowardsmith)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-preview-formatting-error/)
 * Hey guys and gals,
 * I was wondering if one of you could assit me. I am currently working on revamping
   my website and I come across an issue. I have a separate blog section on my portfolio
   site. Thanks to Yoast’s SEO plugin I have been steadily improving my blogs visibility.
   I have made it a habit to add h2 and h3 tags into my headings of each blog post.
   The problem arrises in the preview that the blog post gives on the main page 
   of the blog. It doesn’t format the headers in any way and instead groups them
   with the body paragraph. This makes it confusing to read and I am worried it 
   will cause some users to navigate away. The blog is currently in maintenance 
   mode and not visible. Any ideas?
 * Thanks,
    Clay

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 *  [Paul Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakingid/)
 * (@freakingid)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-preview-formatting-error/#post-2875287)
 * Howdy Clay,
 * I could help you much faster if there is some way you could make the blog visible
   and direct me to a page that shows the problem. Probably not too difficult to
   fix.
 * Paul
 *  Thread Starter [chowardsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chowardsmith/)
 * (@chowardsmith)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-preview-formatting-error/#post-2875294)
 * Hey Paul,
 * Thanks for the fast reply. I went ahead and made the blog path visible. [http://clayhowardsmith.com/category/blog/](http://clayhowardsmith.com/category/blog/)
 * Thanks,
 * Clay
 *  [Paul Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakingid/)
 * (@freakingid)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-preview-formatting-error/#post-2875296)
 * Hey Clay,
 * Shooting from the hip, here, but that page (a category listing page) seems to
   be showing an Excerpt of your page, rather than the page itself. When showing
   excerpts, by default, the HTML tags are stripped and you just get plain text.
 * One of many possible ways to fix this is using a plugin that allows fancier /
   marked-up excerpts:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/)
 * Now, if your theme is automatically generating the excerpt from the first (n)
   characters of your post, I’m not sure this plugin will help. But, it will take
   you like 2 minutes to test.
 * Let me know how it goes.
    Take care, Paul
 *  Thread Starter [chowardsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chowardsmith/)
 * (@chowardsmith)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-preview-formatting-error/#post-2875362)
 * Cool, it worked thanks so much!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [chowardsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chowardsmith/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-preview-formatting-error/#post-2875362)
 * Status: not resolved

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