How to disable Featured Images?

I just bought the theme and want to thank the developer for such remarkable job done. The theme i have been using made provision for both post thumbnails and featured images that will show on home page and category pages. I have thousands of posts alread published. But featured images were not shown on post pages. Now, with this theme i noticed both thumbnails and featured images are shown on post pages together. How can i disable the featured images and leave only the thumbnails showing on the post pages? Please help, thanks

I'm not quite sure what do You mean as "post thumbnails". From developer point of view it is a function that turns on "featured image" option on posts (pages, custom post-types).

Perhaps You mean post images that are added to posts through media manager?

If so - then would You like to remove featured image from single post beginning, so it only shows on "index/blog/archive" sites, and on single posts not?

Yes Cyberek that's exactly what i want. And another thing, how do i set up the Home page? I have tried to use the GK News Show Pro widget but only latest posts are showing. I created a new page and named it home and used the default layout. Am i missing something/ Please help. THanks

To get result like in our demo - you should start with quickstart installation instead using single theme files.

And the easiest way to completely disable featured image on single post would be to copy file:
/wp-content/theme/News/content-single.php
to
/wp-content/theme/News-Child/content-single.php

and comment line number 18 so it looks:

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   <?php //include(gavern_file('layouts/content.post.featured.php')); ?>


Also - child theme should be set as default.
If You don't want to use child theme - then edit original file and do the same change.

Thanks but i have no clue as to what you are saying. What are single theme files? I have been using WordPress themes for over 5 years and never had issues implementing widgets or problems with featured images. The theme seems a bit complicated especially when it comes to deploying the widgets. The documentation is a bit scanty and not at all comprehensive enough for someone who may not have a clue how the theme's framework is implemented.

i may need help in implementing everything as it is done on the demo as i have tried and spent a few hours and not getting anywhere. Why should someone go through a rigorous procedure just to implement a WordPress theme? Kindly let me know what you guys are prepared to do to help me. Thanks

As I have said - if You would like to start from look&feel of our demo - use quickstart installation pack - it installs WP with our theme, sample post and pages data and widget configurations. It is much easier to do that this way, and for most beginners and middle-advanced wp-users it gets them to the point where they would like to be. If You are power user, You could start with just template and configure all on your own, but there is no "guideline" how to do that, as it would take a lot of time to do it by hand - and result would be similar as with quickstart.
So depending of what kind of user You are - You could either start with quickstart, start with standard WP and add ot template, or maybe do mix - install quickstart in other location, and check how things are configured, what widget settings we use the look&feel of demo.

Ps - "single theme files" is a theme downloaded and installed in clean WP enviroment (with no data).