Title: Remove 'Default Thumbnail.' text/link from posts?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Remove 'Default Thumbnail.' text/link from posts?

 *  [tawmoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tawmoose/)
 * (@tawmoose)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-thumbnail-textlink-from-posts/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I’ll preface by apologizing for lack of familiarity with vernacular. Here is 
   my problem: at the top of all my posts, by default, the words “Default Thumbnail.”
   appear. It is a permanent link to the post.
 * [http://www.dataveillant.com/](http://www.dataveillant.com/)
 * I cannot find a way to remove this or change it. I want people to find a permanent
   link, but this is aesthetically bothering and does not actually feature a thumbnail.
   I hoping you can help me remove it altogether without losing permalinks. Alternately,
   can we change the bloody “Default Thumbnail.” as there is no thumbnail? It is
   misleading as there is no thumbnail, just the misplaced words themselves.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [hartmutnz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hartmutnz/)
 * (@hartmutnz)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-thumbnail-textlink-from-posts/#post-4173830)
 * Hi there might be a setting somewhere in your theme to “hide thumbnails”. Another
   idea is to create a “default thumbnail image so it appears as your link image
   in all posts.. which could be a nice touch name it: thumbnail.jpg this which 
   goes into your images folder.
    Alternatively you could simply just upload a small
   image for each of your posts, which would also look nice. Also you could place
   this question to the Theme developer, go to your theme plugin page and ask there,
   they might know the correct way to not show thumbnails..
 *  Thread Starter [tawmoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tawmoose/)
 * (@tawmoose)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-thumbnail-textlink-from-posts/#post-4173837)
 * Hi hartmutnz,
 * Thank you very much for your time and response. I made a thumbnail.jpg graphic
   and it worked very well. The graphic seems to be displacing the embedded drop
   shadow behind it for whatever reason. Any idea as to how to fix this?
 * Also, if you don’t mind, could you please suggest as to how I can stop the theme
   from showing only previews of my blogpost? I’d like the whole thing to show as
   opposed to these little previews. Please note that I have examined every theme
   option per se and no where is this choice made available.
 * Very grateful for your time and expertise – thank you kindly!
 *  Thread Starter [tawmoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tawmoose/)
 * (@tawmoose)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-thumbnail-textlink-from-posts/#post-4173839)
 * Update: the dropshadow issue corrected itself, somehow.
 * I’ve looked for the_exerpt() in index.php, also searched in every either .php
   and couldn’t find it. I read that changing it to the_content() fixes the problem
   for most, but no dice. I’m not too concerned about so whatever 🙂 Thanks again,
   hartmuntz + others
 *  [hartmutnz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hartmutnz/)
 * (@hartmutnz)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-thumbnail-textlink-from-posts/#post-4173848)
 * Good to hear this worked for you!
    Re “display full posts on frontpage” Go to
   DASHBOARD SETTINGS Click on READING Set: Front page displays, to >>> Your latest
   posts Set: For each article in a feed, to >>> show Full text
 * SAVE SETTINGS
    This should be all you need to do.
 *  Thread Starter [tawmoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tawmoose/)
 * (@tawmoose)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-thumbnail-textlink-from-posts/#post-4173869)
 * Thanks a lot, hartmutnz. I gave your directions a shot, and the Readings Settings
   were already set to Full Text. It’s no biggie, if you have any other thoughts
   they are certainly welcomed but if not, you’ve been tremendously helpful. Thanks
   a lot man.
 *  [hartmutnz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hartmutnz/)
 * (@hartmutnz)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-default-thumbnail-textlink-from-posts/#post-4173884)
 * Hi tawmoose, sorry, can’t think of anything to fix the full text issue, maybe
   it’s a good idea to start a new thread to get some answers, as it’s more theme
   specific I would place that into the THEME support area.. good luck.

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