Homepage Slider not working – Ever After theme

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  blatchfordtr · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 4:21 am

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  I have set sticky posts with featured images to 850×400 and no matter what I do, they will not show up on the homepage slider that’s supposed to work with Ever After theme. Help please?!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justpi · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 4:43 am

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  Go to Settings >Reading and make sure the blog front is set to display your latest posts.

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  blatchfordtr · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 12:19 pm

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  Wow, thanks. That did the trick. Next question: is there any way to just have the slider on the front page and not the feed of my most recent posts?

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  justpi · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 2:32 pm

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  You’re welcome. Note that the theme description is rather misleading: the slider doesn’t show on the homepage, it shows on the main posts page. So you cannot have a slider on the homepage if you set the homepage (=blog front) to display a static page instead of your latest posts.

  Next answer is no (except if you had the Custom Design upgrade). Like most themes with a slider, the theme displays sticky posts in the slider, regular posts below the slider. Best you can do is limit the regular posts to 1 (in Settings > Reading).
  If this is important to you, would you consider switching to a different theme?

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  blatchfordtr · Member · Sep 8, 2013 at 2:02 am

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  I would definitely consider switching to a different theme; I originally tried the “Forever” theme and then switched to this one, I forget why… Do you know of any free themes that you think would work well for a portfolio showcasing photography as well as blog posts to showcase writing samples? Thank you so much for your help!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 8, 2013 at 2:14 am

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  Justpi will have more suggestions for you. In the meanwhile you may wish to look at some of the photoblogging themes at
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/subjects/photography/
  For example see Triton Lite, Hatch, Mixfolio, Fontfolio, Autofocus and Imbalance 2

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  blatchfordtr · Member · Sep 8, 2013 at 2:58 am

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  Thanks so much – this is a huge help!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 8, 2013 at 3:01 am

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  You’re welcome. :) I’m sure justpi will be able to assist you even better than I can.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 8, 2013 at 3:03 am

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  P.S. You may find a theme you like among these http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/search/portfolio/

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  justpi · Member · Sep 8, 2013 at 4:42 pm

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  Portfolio themes? I thought you were interested in a theme with a slider and no posts on the homepage.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 8, 2013 at 6:04 pm

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  @justpi
  
  @blatchfordtr
  Please accept my apology for posting the link to Portfolio themes rather than those with posts sliders. I do know that all themes with post sliders can be located here http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/post-slider/ My mistake was the result of having too many open threads and posting into the wrong one.