Featured Slider in Showcase Page template

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  bysoheirblog · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 8:36 pm

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  I can’t activate the Featured Slider in Showcase Page template on my Oxygen theme even though I followed the steps (use static page + select 2 pages /select showcase template) Please I need help with this it will be geartly appreciated… :)

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 8:45 pm

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  Oxygen Theme Description http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/oxygen Live demo site http://oxygendemo.wordpress.com/

  In Oxygen you can either have a Home page that displays your posts or a static front page ie. a Showcase template. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/#setting-up-a-static-front-page

  Showcase page template
  When you first activate Oxygen, you’ll see your posts in a traditional blog format but if you’d like to showcase your content in an online magazine-like fashion, then you can use the Showcase Page template. …

  Post thumbnails are 470 pixels wide, unless you make the post Sticky to show off in the featured slider, in which case they’re 750 pixels wide. Keep in mind: if you mark a post as Sticky but the featured image is less than 750 pixels wide, then it won’t display in the slider and will still disappear from the river of posts.
  Please be aware that you cannot crop the sticky post thumbnails.

  Sticky post thumbnails are 750 pixels wide in the featured slider
  Regular post thumbnails are 470 pixels wide
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts
  Oxygen
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/#setting-a-featured-image

  If you don’t see the page attributes module then make sure that you don’t have it hidden in your screen options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/
  Modules to unhide:
  Post – Likes and Shares, Format*, Categories, Tags, Excerpt, Send Trackbacks, Discussion, Comments**, Slug, Author, Revisions, Writing Helper
  Page – Likes and Shares, Page Attributes, Featured Image, Discussion, Comments**, Page Revisions, Slug, Author, Revisions, Writing Helper

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 8:45 pm

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  Additionally, you have to mark the posts you want to appear in the Slider as Sticky posts and they have to have featured images attached to them. Those featured images must be at least 750 pixels wide.

  See here:
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/oxygen/

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 8:46 pm

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  @tt good day to you! :)

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 8:48 pm

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  @justjennifer
  Hi there :)

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  bysoheirblog · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 9:06 pm

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  hi all, thanks for replying so quickly,
  I haven’t checked the size of my pictures ;) silly me
  thanks again!

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 9:16 pm

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  When it comes to featured images the dimensions required by the theme are critical.