selecta free theme – recent posts

hi, a just installed the selecta from wordpress.com. it is an older theme.
i cannot get the recent posts with thumbnails to show on the home page. i added the widget for recent posts and selected yes for: show latest posts row on the front page.

i even added a featured image to posts. yet the row and images do not load. in fact, the featured image setting shows does not display an image anywhere.

any advice?

i have version 1.1. if there is a newer version for download, i’d like to know. the obox people don’t even have it on their website any more. they do have instructions that are horrible as they tell you to find/use features that aren’t even installed in the theme.