Title: Keep Post Formatting
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Keep Post Formatting

 *  Resolved [hiltonmw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiltonmw/)
 * (@hiltonmw)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-post-formatting-1/)
 * Is there a way to keep the post formatting in the auto-generated excerpt? I have
   links/etc. that are showing in my post excerpt but they do not come through.
 * I also have paragraphs that make the post content more readable and those do 
   not come through either. So it just looks like a wall of text.
 * Can this be resolved in the DIV? Also, how would I format my div so the title
   is larger than the text?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-post-formatting-1/#post-7487919)
 * Excerpts strip out all formatting. If you’d like to show a formatted excerpt,
   use include_content=”true” and use the <!–more–> tag in your post content to 
   mark where the excerpt should end.
 *  Thread Starter [hiltonmw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiltonmw/)
 * (@hiltonmw)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-post-formatting-1/#post-7487927)
 * Tried that, so now I’m using the following code, but now I seem to be getting
   double of the first part of each post…
    see [http://www.comperfection.com/posts](http://www.comperfection.com/posts)
   for what I mean… `[display-posts include_excerpt="true" include_content="true"
   image_size="thumbnail" posts_per_page="30" wrapper="div"]`
 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-post-formatting-1/#post-7487996)
 * Yes, because you’re including both the excerpt and the post content. You should
   only use one or the other. So remove `include_excerpt="true"` from your shortcode.
 *  Thread Starter [hiltonmw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiltonmw/)
 * (@hiltonmw)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-post-formatting-1/#post-7488029)
 * thanks. stupid error on my part – easily fixed by you! great support!

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 * Last reply from: [hiltonmw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiltonmw/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-post-formatting-1/#post-7488029)
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