Twenty Fourteen: 3 Ways to Remove Featured Images From Home Page

There’s at least 2 ways to do remove featured images from the home page ( Post Page in Reading Settings ) of the Twenty Fourteen default theme for WordPress.

All code changes should be made in a child theme.

Note: Use the 2nd method if using Post Formats as the Twenty Fourteen parent theme contains a separate content.php file for each post format.

1. In the content.php file around Line 14 change this line

<?php twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail(); ?>

To this:

<?php if ( ! is_home() ) twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail(); ?>

You should copy over the file to a child theme before making the modifications.

2. Or around line 172 of the twentyfourteen > inc > template-tags.php file you could add the is_home() conditional tag so its like this:

function twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail() {
    	if ( post_password_required() || is_attachment() || is_home() || ! has_post_thumbnail() ) {
    		return;
    	}

And here’s a basic example of the home page without featured images.

3. You could also add this CSS code to your child themes style.css file.

.home .post-thumbnail img {
    display: none;
}