How to remove padding from a banner section

Site URL: https://www.francescacortesi.com

Hello!
I have a problem with the homepage of my website where I have a big area of extra padding after a banner section (after "latest posts"). And the problem is even worse on mobile.

I could not understand where that padding is coming from, as it is not mentioned in the design section of the template. Anyone experiencing who has experienced a similar problem and found a solution?

Thanks!
Francesca

@FCortesi

This is happening because the height accommodates the tallest title/excerpt. The best fix is to make your titles and excerpts roughly the same length across posts. You can see in this screenshot the longest title/excerpt that is causing the summary block to use a tall height;

Thank you so much for the answer @christyprice! Is there a way to set a character limit for the excerpts in the settings? That would be of great help

@FCortesi there’s not a built-in option to limit the excerpt length. You can check out this discussion and chime in there for a code solution: 

Thank you so much for the help @chrisyprice