I used the suggestion from this article to create my own homepage feed. https://www.wix-blog-community.com/post/how-to-create-a-customizable-recent-posts-list
It works great and I can customize everything I wanted. The only problem is that all links and text formating is gone. That makes sense since the only field name I can link to is Plain Content. Is there a way to link to the rich content and show that instead of the plain text? Is the rich text hidden in the content manager?