How can I make my featured images slide work?

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  jolenecolbert · Member · Mar 10, 2017 at 7:17 pm

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  I followed the directions, tagged a project as “popular” and listed “popular as the tag for featured content, but the slider is still not appearing.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 10, 2017 at 10:51 pm

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  Please consult your detailed them description page at https://wordpress.com/themes/sketch/
  Featured Content section

  Featured Content
  A slider for your featured content appears on the Portfolio page template. https://wordpress.com/themes/sketch/#portfolio-page-template
  https://wordpress.com/themes/sketch/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 10, 2017 at 10:53 pm

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  Note: http://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 13, 2017 at 2:53 pm

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  Hi @jolenecolbert!

  Another variable is the number of items the Featured Content tag has been applied to – there needs to be more than one published item, otherwise Sketch won’t have anything to rotate through. Once you add the tag on a second post or project, you should start seeing the slider :)

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  mari0009 · Member · Mar 13, 2017 at 3:09 pm

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  Hello there. I’ve been using Sight for my blog for 3 years and now the slide show disapeared. The problem appears to be the substitution of “Appear in slideshow” for “Set Aside”, which doesn’t work.

  Help!

  What is this about setting a tag? Is this valid for sight?

  Thanks,

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  mari0009 · Member · Mar 13, 2017 at 3:11 pm

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  Here the blog, looking very sad without the slide show showing…

  https://mopumopu.wordpress.com/

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 13, 2017 at 7:44 pm

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  Hi @mari0009!

  It looks like your slider is working – there’s a single post marked for the slider and it is loading when I check your site :).

  Sight’s slider works a bit differently (it’s an older theme, and uses a different method).

  For Sight, you don’t need to use a special tag for your slider. Posts you mark as Sticky will appear in the slider.

  There sometimes a delay with Sight’s slider updating when you mark a sticky post. You can use WP Admin to mark them as sticky to get around that, but I’d actually recommend switching to a newer, more up to date slider theme if at all possible:

  https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/post-slider/

  To access WP Admin, visit your site, and add /wp-admin to the end of the address. Then you can edit the posts using the menu on the left.