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Actually, I think I may have solved it. For some reason the Thumbnail size in Settings > Media was set to 0. I changed it back to 165, deleted the old thumbnails and reuploaded them and it reuploaded as 165, cropped properly as square in the grid view. It appears fine. is this the proper solution? Thank you.

Thanks so much for the tip. I wish I knew what all this meant and that I could figure out how to implement it in my code. But I really do appreciate the help! Cheers!

Great, thank you, this worked wonderfully with getting the images in excerpt to open with SLB and keeping most of my formatting.

Only thing is I use Rich Text Excerpts to create my excerpts and using this removes paragraph spacing / formatting.

Just a matter of which one I would want to sacrifice for the home page. Either way, still a handy fix. Thank you!