The featured image is a banner shape. If you use an image with a different aspect ratio, it will automatically get cropped into shape of the banner image. To make sure your featured is cropping in the right place on your posts, you can crop the image before uploading, or using the media library image…
Sometimes you want to create a layout on a post which makes use of the full width of the page. To do this you will need to remove the sidebar. Note: the disable sidebar option just removes the sidebar content from the sidebar area. It doesn’t give you the full width of the page design…
The featured image is added in the post settings. Not as a block on the page.
By default, featured images do not show their captions. You can enable the caption to show by taking the follow steps in the post’s appearance settings.
The featured image on a post will be automatically cropped to an aspect ratio of 1468:710 on all screen sizes. You will get the best results by cropping your featured images to match this aspect ratio. You can crop your image before uploading, or you can use the editing tool in the WordPress media library…