Removing the Featured Image Thumbnail in some Wordpress Themes

I had once faced a problem where I used a particular theme in wordpress which had the feature of 'Featured Images'. Now when a single post was viewed, the image in the post was shown two times. First a very big thumb was shown and then the full sized image.

I had somehow solved that problem then, but it has appeared again in one of my friend's new blogs. So, I decided to write this down for him.

[* This is for .org users]

1 - On the dashboard, go the appearance>editor section. 

2 - Once here, select 'single post' from the file list on the right hand side. 

3 - When you click on the file link, it opens up for editing in the editing area of the same page. Once here, find this code in the file. I may not be exactly the same for your theme, but something similar:

4 - Basically, we are looking for the thumbnail of the featured image which is shown at the start of the post. Once we have this, simply comment it. It means that we will disable this part.

You start a comment a comment like this '/*' and end it like this '*/' [the single quotes should be ignored]. Once you have commented this part, it will look like this.

5 - Save changes to the file and view blog to check if its done. As you have not drastically altered any code, you can just undo your changes in case of any issue. If you have doubts, comment to this post, I will try and do something.

[* and this is for .com users]

1 - So, wordpress .com does not give you an editor to edit php files. But still the problem can be solved there. But in this case, as these is no central code editor, this is to be done on per post basis.

2 - Open a post in edit mode. On the menu bar on the right side, scroll down to the bottom where you have an option to select featured image. 

3 - Select a featured image. This is the same image that you want as you post image. 

4 - Now, if this is an old post, delete the image in the post. This way, your post will have an image, which is the featured image, but the image will not be used twice. Now save the post and see if this works for you.

5 - If this is a new post, just dont put the same image in the post. Just put the title and other things and you are done.