How do I get Post featured images to show on the article page?

I don’t believe that is the purpose of the featured image to automatically be formatted into a post, If you would prefer not to add the image to your posts through the editor then maybe a plugin or template edit with custom post types would be more suited

When I first used WordPress the featured image did show at the top of the post, and most themes I’ve seen did the same thing. I’ve only seen a few that didn’t, including Evolve, however I don’t see why there isn’t an option to enable it. This seems a matter of preference and there should at least be the option as WordPress has a function just for this, and rather than clicking an option I now have to modify theme code which can get overwritten in an update unless I make a child theme and use versioning and code-compare to update. No matter how I cut it it seems cumbersome. We’re trying to avoid modifying theme code.

Custom post types is over-complicated for everybody. I will look into a plugin that will give an option to have it added to the post regardless of the theme, if possible.

The Twenty Twelve and Twenty Thirteen themes both show the featured image at the top of the post. The Twenty Fourteen theme doesn’t, so this is a recent arbitrary decision by WordPress that the Evolve theme has apparently subscribed to with no thought to previous compatibility.

We do want featured images to show in the posts and pages, and there is no option to in the theme. The only solution seems to be to edit the theme code or make a new template, which I’m afraid will get overwritten if we update the theme. The alternative is of course the child theme option I mentioned, which has the complications as well.