DW Fixel: Side Note
1. How To Change Text In Footer Section
To edit the text “Copyright © 2013 by DW Fixel. Proudly powered by WordPress. Theme DW Fixel by DesignWall” in the footer, please following instruction below:
Go to your theme in the folder path /wp-content/themes/dw-fixel and open up the footer.php file with your notepad or any code editor, go to line 8, you can edit the text here as you want.

2. How To Set Featured Post
You want to set your post as a featured post, go to Posts >> Add New/Edit Post, look for ‘Set Featured Post‘ box on the right side, tick the ‘Set Featured Post’ box before publishing the post.

Here is how the featured post should look like at front-end:
3. How to remove the empty blocks
To remove the empty blocks with the plus symbol in the middle, please open up the content-empty.php file in themes/dw-fixel folder, and remove all the code in that file. Once done, save the file and refresh your site in the browser to see the changes.
Before removing the code:

After: