How do I put a slider of photo's in my header

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  louise379 · Member · Sep 6, 2014 at 1:15 pm

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  How do I put a slider in my header? I’m using the twenty eleven theme. Please see http://www.louiseorders.com as an example of what I’m trying to do. Thanks.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 8, 2014 at 3:23 pm

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  Hi Louise,

  The slider in the Twenty Eleven theme doesn’t appear in the theme’s header. Instead, it has a Showcase template you can use to display a slider. You can see how that looks on the theme demo here: http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/showcase/

  To get started, you can create a new page for your showcase or edit a page you already have on your site. Choose the Showcase Template under page templates and save it. You can also set that page as the Front Page of your site if you’d like.

  Then, you can create the slider by marking blog posts as sticky posts. Those sticky posts will be added to your theme’s slider.

  You can find those instructions and other theme-specific features on the Twenty Eleven theme page here: https://wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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  louise379 · Member · Sep 9, 2014 at 10:50 am

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  Thanks for your response. Before I start playing with creating this, are there any themes that do allow a slider in the header? That’s my primary need for my site. Thanks again.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 9, 2014 at 4:28 pm

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  Hi Louise,

  You can find all of the themes that support a slider of some kind in our theme showcase here:

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

  You can take a look at the theme demo sites to see what the theme’s slider looks like. For example, I like the slider in the Superhero theme. That slider appears just under the site title and navigation menu, as you can see on the theme’s demo site: http://superherodemo.wordpress.com/

  Another theme you might want to check out is the Blissful Blog theme — you can see the slider on the theme’s demo site here: http://blissfulblogdemo.wordpress.com/

  I’d recommend taking a look at those examples and at all the theme’s in the showcase, to see if one has a slider that will work for you. :) Please let me know if you have any other questions about that!