Same issue I have with 95% of all WordPress themes designed to show photos - featured images. We authors have no control over how they're used in the theme. More specifically, it seems someone has deemed that we photographers want the featured image to appear in part or in whole in the post's header, leaving us with no control over how it's displayed. The only options left to us are to either not include a featured image for the post or go ahead and place the picture as post content and have doubled images in our posts.

This is very frustrating. If it is a photoblog the picture is the content. There isn't much that we wish to add outside of a brief caption. I don't want the post header to include my feature image or in the case of this theme I don't want it to be a part of the background.

One may think that utilizing a different post format might be a solution. That might be a useful idea if I were building my site from scratch, but in the case of a pre-existing site I would have to go back and change the format of up to hundreds of posts. No. I think I will just use another theme. This one won't do.

That is my gripe. I have to wade through dozens of theme templates just to find a few that will not automatically put my featured images into my posts. Simply put we need the option to choose if we want our featured images utilized in such fashion.

Not every post is conceived to be a gallery of images. Many times we just want to make a post around a single image. It's not always good to display it twice in one post. That's not a good showcase.

Why are so many photoblog themes designed this way?