johanvandemerwe

Users that have the Genesis Theme Framework installed are already known with the Genesis Featured Page 
plugin. This extended version looks almost the same, but adds the possibility to add a thumbnail of your 
own choice. This can be any image in your media library.
To add a different image, just switch off the “Show featured image” and place the name of the image in 
the URL. To make it even easier, you just enter here the name of the image as in “take-this-picture.png”. 
The plugin makes sure that the selected format is taken from your media library.
Bonus:
With this plugin it is also possible to show the excerpt of an article (which is not in the original Genesis plugin). 
!important! For this to work you have to install the Page Excerpt Plugin by Jeremy Massel.
How to use the image URL:
without month/year in media permalinks:
/montepulciano.jpg
with/year in media permalinks:
/10/2014/montepulciano.jpg
So you use the image name + extension starting after the /uploads in the media permalink. 
Don’t use the show featured image and the Image URL at the same time. That will show the featured image set in the page.
You can find that plugin here: 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-excerpt/" rel="ugc">Link to Page Excerpt Plugin by Jeremy Massel (opens in new window)</a>

Genesis Featured Page Extended

Extends the Genesis Featured Page plugin. Show as thumbnail any image in your media library and show your page excerpt. Requires Genesis Framework.

Bill Erickson

This plugin ONLY works with the Genesis theme. Do not install if you are not using Genesis.
This plugin lets you easily remove the page title from specific pages. Don’t want “Home” at the top of your homepage? Activate, then edit the homepage and check “Hide”.
You can also set sitewide defaults. If you don’t want page titles on any pages, go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Settings > Title Toggle and check the appropriate box. Once a post type has the default set to remove, when editing a page you can selectively turn on that page’s title.
See <a href="https://github.com/billerickson/genesis-title-toggle/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">the wiki</a> for information on extending the plugin: 
– <a href="https://github.com/billerickson/genesis-title-toggle/wiki#use-on-posts-or-custom-post-types" rel="nofollow ugc">Use on Posts or Custom Post Types</a> 
– <a href="https://github.com/billerickson/Genesis-Title-Toggle/wiki#integrating-with-a-custom-theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Integrate with Custom Theme</a>

Genesis Title Toggle

This plugin ONLY works with the Genesis theme. Do not install if you are not using Genesis. Turn on/off page titles on a per page basis, and set site …

Genesis Featured Page Extended vs Genesis Title Toggle