Displaying a Showcase slider on my Posts page.
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I’m using the Twenty Eleven theme. I have a Posts page, set to the “Showcase” Template, which should allow a slider box at the top of the page displaying up to 10 featured (Sticky) posts. However, the Sticky posts appear at the top of the page, but not in a Slider frame. How can I correct this?
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Theme description:
To get started with the custom Showcase Page Template you need to create a page for it. Choose the Showcase Template under page templates in any page, save it, and assign it as the front page in Settings → Reading. This will change your site from the standard Twenty Eleven blog look to Twenty Eleven’s fancy showcase. You still have you regular blog list at hand for several views, like categories, searches, and tags and you can specify another page to work as your blog if you want to.
To add posts to the Featured Post section, also known as a post slider, just mark some posts as sticky. That’s all there is to it.
To have a big featured image you need to use an image that is at least as big as the header image (1000px x 288px). Also, make sure you have a set size for Large image under Settings → Media that allows for such sizes. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/
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Look on this support page on the featured image and scroll down to “twenty eleven.” You have to set a featured image of a specific size for the featured post slider to work. The support page shows the image sizes needed.
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Thank you, timethief and the sacredpath. If I’m reading correctly, the only way to make the Posts page properly display the Showcase slider (other than upgrading to the custom package and using CSS) is to make the page I designate Posts as my front page. If I do that, will the posts page now appear as the default landing page when people enter my blog URL?
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Hi Kerwyn,
Yes. See here please so you know exactly how the theme is designed > The workings of Twenty Eleven
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