I was able to find a convoluted work around, but it would be very nice if you provided the option to show the excerpt for a blog post if one exists. This seems like a pretty standard wordpress feature that you have taken away in your theme. 

The work around is to change a php file, which isn't too bad if you could use the child theme. But the child theme doesn't read subfolders, so you have to change a parent theme file to get it to do that. It just doesn't make any sense. 

There are many things I like about this theme, but that just seems really weird to me....

I'm using the Blog Grid and "classic" navigation. 

Ah okay. We did not try copying the whole file into functions.php. We just tried to replicate the file structure and make a new copy in the child theme. Thanks so much!

Hi there - this does not seem to be working. I copied the entire rd_blog.php contents and pasted into my child theme functions.php. Then I changed the line from

echo tt_text_truncate(tt_content(), "300");

to

echo the_excerpt();

And I am still getting a truncated version of the post instead of the excerpt.

Any thoughts?

Also, FYI, it's not even working when I change it in the parent theme in the rd_blog.php file itself.

Nope, that didn't work. Assuming I should keep the word "echo" in front of that?