Blog Post List - excerpt of 0?

I had a similar situation, but I only wanted to display the blog image and excluding any text. We made the images call-to-action buttons and used custom images that included the text, you can see an example here: https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/learn/b/sugar-for-business-users

To do so, in Widget Studio, I copied the out-of-the-box Blog-Post List widget and created one I called "Blog - Post List - Image only." Then, I removed the code that displays the text from "listitem.vm". (Pretty sure that's the only change I made, I don't see any others at quick glance.) 

I don't see any reason the same couldn't be done to keep the title but not the excerpt and just use that new widget when you need it. 

Here's how that file reads on my custom/edited version:

##
## Renders an individual blog post
## Expects in context: $post
##

#set ($blog = $core_v2_blog.Get("%{ Id = $post.BlogId }"))
#if ($blog && $blog.Id > 0)

	#set ($postImage = '')
	#if ($post.PostImageUrl && $post.PostImageUrl != '')
		#set ($postImage = $post.PostImageUrl)
	#elseif ($blog.DefaultPostImageUrl)
		#set ($postImage = $blog.DefaultPostImageUrl)
	#end

	#set ($showthumbnail = false)
	#if ($displayPostImage && $postImage && $postImage != '')
		#set ($showthumbnail = true)
	#end

<li class="content-item ${viewLayout}" data-href="$core_v2_encoding.HtmlAttributeEncode($post.Url)">

	<div class="content ${viewLayout} abbreviated">
		#if ($showthumbnail)
			<div class="avatar">
				#if ($viewLayout == 'grid')
					#set ($imageWidth = 512)
					#set ($imageHeight = 256)
				#else
					#set ($imageWidth = 100)
					#set ($imageHeight = 100)
				#end
				<a href="$core_v2_encoding.HtmlAttributeEncode($post.Url)">
					$core_v2_ui.GetResizedImageHtml($postImage, $imageWidth, $imageHeight, "%{border='0px', alt=$post.Name, ResizeMethod = 'ZoomAndCrop' }")
				</a>
			</div>
		#end

		##<div class="summary">
		##	<h2 class="name">
		##		#if($blog && !$oneBlog)
		##			<a class="internal-link view-application" href="$core_v2_encoding.HtmlAttributeEncode($blog.Url)">
		##				$blog.Name:
		##			</a>
		##		#end
		##		<a href="$core_v2_encoding.HtmlAttributeEncode($post.Url)">$post.Title</a>
		##	</h2>
			
		##</div>

		<div class="attributes">
			<ul class="attribute-list">
				<li class="attribute-item">
					<span class="attribute-value">$core_v2_language.FormatDate($post.PublishedDate)</span>
				</li>
			</ul>
		</div>

	</div>

</li>
#end

Use at your own risk and make a backup, but it works well for us! 

Alex Nassi , this is SO HELPFUL! I love what you've done with images only. Wow, what a difference to have that pesky text gone. I think I'm going to copy your image only idea (unless you charge royalties... :-) ). I will test this out next week. HUGE thanks!

Alex Nassi , this is SO HELPFUL! I love what you've done with images only. Wow, what a difference to have that pesky text gone. I think I'm going to copy your image only idea (unless you charge royalties... :-) ). I will test this out next week. HUGE thanks!

Nice, glad it helps, and good luck with it! The only downside is you can't Command-F on the page to find anything, but obviously, the search helps with that if you're looking for anything specific. We chose looks over functionality in this case