How to show image carousel on Sketch Theme homepage as shown in the demo?
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I just activated the Sketch theme for my site. I’m struggling to customise the homepage as shown in the demo page for this theme: http://sketchdemo.wordpress.com/
I’ve managed to create portfolio page and show my projects. But there are no notes on the theme set up page for adding a carousel slider on the portfolio page (default homepage for my site). https://wordpress.com/themes/eshakumarsahni.wordpress.com/sketch/
Please help. I’ve searched all the forums, tried creating image galleries, nothing helps.
Thanks, Esha
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Hi Esha,
Sorry for the trouble! You can activate the carousel slider on the portfolio page by setting up the featured content section in your site’s customizer. To get to the customizer, head to your My Sites page and click the “Customize” link there.
Once the Customizer is open, go to the “Featured Content” section and enter a tag name (like “featured”) there. Then, you can tag portfolio items with that tag name to add them to the carousel slider.
Please let me know if you have any questions about that!
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Hi Rachelmcr,
Thanks for helping me. I just followed your instructions and it still doesn’t work. It just added the new item with tag “featured” as the first item on the homepage.
I’m using a static page for displaying my portfolio items. Is that why this doesn’t work?
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Here’s a screenshot of the project item – http://eshakumarsahni.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-15-at-13-46-29.png
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Hi Esha,
For that “featured” tag to work, you’ll also need to add that tag name in your site’s customizer. (That’s what tells the theme to watch out for that tag name and use it for the slider.) Here are the steps to do that part of the setup:
- Head to your My Sites page and click the “Customize” link there.
- Once the Customizer is open, go to the “Featured Content” section.
- Enter your featured tag name (like “featured”) there.
You’ll also want to make sure your featured portfolio item has a large featured image, to make sure the slider works properly. It looks like you already have those featured images, but I wanted to mention it just in case. :)
Please let me know how that goes!
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Hey Rachel,
I’ve just followed all steps as mentioned above. I set up the tag name to “carousel” in the customizer.
Assigned that tag to the project item and still nothing. See screenshots below.
http://eshakumarsahni.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-15-at-14-37-48.png
http://eshakumarsahni.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-15-at-14-39-16.png
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Hi Esha,
I’m so sorry about that! It looks like you ran into a bug in the Sketch theme — I’ve reported that to our team so they can investigate that issue.
I see that you’ve made the portfolio the front page of your site. That should actually fix the bug that you were running into earlier. Can you try again to mark a couple of your portfolio items as featured and see if the slider works this time?
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Hi Rachel,
You’re a STAR! It works now. So it seems like it needs more than one item to work.
Think this info should be added to the theme help page. It would be make it easier for a lot of people.
Thank you so much!
Esha -
Hi Esha,
You’re welcome! I will definitely chat with our theme developers about how the slider is supposed to work and then update our theme help page to make that clearer. Thanks for the feedback. :)
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