Hello flavorfulworld,

Your query is long but we have read it thoroughly. Actually we find 2 queries, which we try to answer in following points:

• In “Featured Slider Options”, free theme only let you choose category, In pro theme “category”, “page”, “Custom” or “Recent Posts” option available.
• We are following WordPress Theme Standard guide “Front page vs Home guidelines”, if theme user choose latest post, latest post should be display there, nothing other is allowed in there

Both our premium theme and free theme follow WordPress theme guidelines and coding-standard. We can proudly say our coding standard is one of the best.
Please feel free to ask any further query if We have missed.

Best Regards,
AcmeThemes

Hello hollywoodmetal,
Thank you for using our theme SuperMag.
If you need to change the main theme any file, please do not do that. We strongly recommend to use child theme for that.
But for adding only CSS you can use theme customizer options:
Appearance=> Customize => Layout/Design Option => Custom CSS and use Custom CSS
Please never change the parent ( Main ) theme itself.

Hello Daniel,

Please follow the theme instructions here : https://doc.acmethemes.com/supermagpro/#SettingupImagessize.
Also We recommend you to use plugin named Acme Fix Image ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/acme-fix-images/ ) to crop the actual size of the images. This is also described in the theme documentation.
Hope this will solve your issue.

Best Regards,
AcmeThemes

Hello Trajan2845,

Thank you for interest in our theme.
Please follow the documentation here https://doc.acmethemes.com/supermag/.
also Please follow this guide http://www.acmethemes.com/supports/topic/modules-setting-in-front-page/#post-418, it will be useful for free version too.
Further if you buy premium theme and want to see us problem, having confusion in setting up anything, want simple customization, we will do that for you free of charge. Only for heavy customization we request to order customization http://www.acmethemes.com/customization-request/.

If you have get any confusion, please feel free to ask, definitely we try our best for solving problem for our free theme user too.

Best Regards,
AcmeThemes

Hello younman,

Thank you for using our theme SuperMag.
Please go to Appearance=> Customize => Layout/Design Option => Custom CSS and use following CSS.

.single-thumb {
    display: none;
}

Hope this will solve your problems.

Note: This is just notification, in our pro version of theme SuperMagPro, you don’t need to use custom CSS, we have added option to show/remove featured image in all single post or show/remove featured image in a particular single post. You can check pro version of SuperMag Theme here http://www.acmethemes.com/themes/supermagpro/

Best Regards,
AcmeThemes

Hello giordani,

We just checked it through chrome Version 48.0.2564.116 m, in Windows 10 and Chrome 480.2564.116 in Mac OS 10.10.5, the banner is showing fine.
There must be some Advertisement blocking tool in your chrome, which is causing this, can you please check and confirm?

Thanks,

Hello Lellie Jo,

You are doing right way.
Further you can add category while adding/editing post form Categories box => + Add New Category too.

Best Regards

Yes definitely our theme is child theme friendly, you can even override inner file of themes not only templates files.
Your child theme css is blank, please write following css in the child theme style.css:

/*
 Theme Name:   SuperMagPro Child
 Theme URI:    http://www.acmethemes.com/themes/supermagpro/
 Description:  SuperMagPro Child Theme
 Author:       Acme Themes
 Author URI:   http://www.acmethemes.com/
 Template:     supermagpro
 Version:      1.0.0
 License:      GNU General Public License v2 or later
 License URI:  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 Tags:         orange, brown, yellow etc
 Text Domain:  supermagpro-child
*/

Again in functions.php file please write following codes:

<?php
function suprmagpro_child_enqueue_styles() {

    $parent_style = 'parent-style';

    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style )
    );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'suprmagpro_child_enqueue_styles' );
?>

Here is further docs https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes.

this should fix the problems.
if you again have any problem please feel free to ask.

Best Regards,
AcmeThemes