Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

Can you check from your Grid menu from backend and see whether you have enabled this setting "Display post cover"?

If yes, can you provide us with your site backend and FTP access at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site so we can better have a check?

Arlex, I'm aware, that you don't work on the weekends. I don't expect any answer from you. But if you deal with with my cases, I'm very happy and consider as "gift"...

I change the display post cover to yes. Text and picture are displayed, but the black background is still there.

Login data as desired over http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site

Hey Michel,

It is actually by design that the showcase option has a black background because the height of both these columns needs to be the same, otherwise the layout would look very disoriented, http://take.ms/xtOe5

In your scenario, what you could do is to add a custom css,

[gist]
body #eb .eb-blog-grid .eb-blog-grid-showcase-cover__img {
height: 500px;
}
[/gist]

This way, it would stretch the image.