I usually use a nectar slider as the first picture of each blog post, but when I also attach a featured image the blog summary extract includes both the featured image plus the first image in post (see example attached). I'd like to include a featured image as it seems to work better for reshares etc.

it kinda worked as it now show the 'featured image' in the blog extract http://www.selvama.com/blog/ but it now means that the blog extract text starts with the name of the picture (as I usually have a one line text under the first image of the blog).

Is there a way of having the first image of the blog chosen as the image for the blog extract, and hiding the featured image for the extraxt only. Have a featured image is now making things work a lot better for sharing. Thanks - hope I can just tidy up the text.

Thanks for your help

example attached (see the text that reads - Lady Chapel inside Liverpool Cathedral Church (Anglican) on first blog post extract)

cool - worked like magic. don't know how you did it but it works :-D thanks!!

bummer - just did another post and it didn't work see: http://www.selvama.com/blog/

latest post has picture description :-(  is there a best way for me to structure text?

it's gone but there is a really big space - is it because it is still there but invisible? Means that there is hardly any text. Checking out the other summaries, I now notice that the white space between the picture and text on the excerpts varies quite a bit. Any ideas?

Thanks