Display post on main page with thumbnail

What you need is a featured post plugin, you can either display that POST in the widget area or below the SEPARATOR line by using a template function. You can find many plugins to do this job at WordPress Plugin Repository. Link
Here are 2 plugins

  1. Display Features News on Front Page
  2. Featured Post Content Slider

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