Daniel, as I stated above, I am having to use the image post format because that’s the only way I can make the excerpt have an image. I can’t set a featured image when the image isn’t hosted on my site. Otherwise I would use a standard post format.
And please help with the related issue of the thumbnail of a gallery post opening into a lightbox with only three images rather than going to the gallery post itself.
Something in code tells the thumbnail image to open in a lightbox rather than going to the post. I would like to change that. Where do I find it?