Title: formatting post text
Last modified: January 24, 2020

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# formatting post text

 *  Resolved [nbi1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nbi1/)
 * (@nbi1)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-post-text/)
 * Is there a way to format a post’s text so that you don’t just get the post content
   as it was originally created? Can post images and text be separated somehow so
   that they can be processed as separate components? Is there a way at post creation
   time to separate image and text content in anticipation of needing to treat them
   separately when they are rendered? I use Elementor and have had repeated problems
   with widgets not providing controls or custom CSS just not being applied to the
   text in a widget. Just rendering posts as is often isn’t helpful with the look
   and feel of a site.
 * Also what is that blue dot that appears next to the lower left corner of a post’s
   image and how do I get rid of it? It’s definitely an artifact produced by display-
   posts. My short-code looks like this:
 * _[display-posts include\_title=”false”
    include\_content=”true” id=”current”]
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by [nbi1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nbi1/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-post-text/#post-12456508)
 * If you set a featured image when creating your post, you can include that in 
   the Display Posts output and style it however you want. Ex:
 * [display-posts include_title=”false” include_image=”true” include_content=”true”
   id=”current”]
 * By default Display Posts outputs the results as a bulleted list, which is the
   source of the blue dot you see. You can change the wrapper to a `div` like this:
 * [display-posts include_title=”false” include_image=”true” include_content=”true”
   id=”current” wrapper=”div”]
 *  Thread Starter [nbi1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nbi1/)
 * (@nbi1)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-post-text/#post-12456668)
 * WPematico supposedly can find images in source articles and set them to be the
   featured image, but that isn’t working. I just found one of your tutorials on
   featured image which seems to contain code for extracting the first found article
   image as the featured. I’ll give that a try.
 * Regarding the display of the image I may have misunderstood something in the 
   docs. I took image_size=”thumbnail” to mean scale & display the featured image.
   It seemed to me that the presence of “image_size” would make include_image=”true”
   unnecessary since one wouldn’t use “image_size” unless the intent was to display
   the image. But based on your comment both are necessary if one wants to display
   a thumbnail?
 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-post-text/#post-12457846)
 * I’m sorry, you’re right, the parameter is image_size, not include_image. It’s
   been a while since I’ve used that parameter and it doesn’t match the naming conventions
   of the other display parameters.
 * You should use [display-posts image_size=”thumbnail”] if you want to display 
   the thumbnail sized image. You can use [display-posts image_size=”medium”] to
   display the medium size. The image sizes can be managed in Settings > Media.

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