Making text or image linkable for short-code posts

I have brought in posts to my static home page using this short-code and by setting up a post category called Latest News.
[su_posts template=”templates/default-loop.php” id=”” posts_per_page=”5″ post_type=”post” taxonomy=”category” tax_term=”latest-news”]

You can view a test here: http://francodenicola.com/Home-test/

I have my posts set up for full content with read-more tags. For the posts themselves on the POSTS page the image

within

the content does appear as it should.
However for this short code version of the posts (which appears on the static home page) only the feature image is used. And I would like that image linkable just as the content-image is on the posts page (http://francodenicola.com/updates/).

I expect there is a more sophisticated short code I could use [suggestions welcome], but I did at least get this experimental one to work to bring posts in via a certain category.
Is there a way to make the feature image or any of the text linkable for posts brought into the static page?