my blog does not look like the oxygen theme in the demo

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  mawsonfamilyadventures · Member · Aug 11, 2013 at 9:01 pm

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  I can’t get the oxygen theme to look like how it is displayed on the demo. The sticky Posts and the Showcase page are not working. I really would like someone to help me with this asap. http://mawsonfamilyadventures.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php

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  timethief · Member · Aug 11, 2013 at 9:10 pm

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  I can’t get the oxygen theme to look like how it is displayed on the demo.

  That’s what they all say lol :D

  I’m laughing because we Volunteers get this every day, day in and day out. We see it so often that most Volunteers simply ignore Oxygen threads.

  Without doubt it’s a complex theme to fathom. Please consult the detailed theme description here http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/oxygen/ There are also many threads that explain how the Oxygen theme is designed to operate.

  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 ie. static front page
  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.

  If you failed to upload and set a featured image of the correct dimensions in each post then until you do upload a featured image of the correct dimensions into each post the gray box will be there.

  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/
  Page – Likes and Shares, Page Attributes, Featured Image, Discussion, Comments, Page Revisions, Slug, Author, Revisions, Writing Helper

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  timethief · Member · Aug 11, 2013 at 9:13 pm

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  help me with this asap

  Please take note that the average time for getting a first response to a thread posted to any blogging support forum is between 14 – 24 hours. Expecting instant service is not realistic.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 11, 2013 at 9:37 pm

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  You can scroll through the Oxygen threads and see how others have handled it https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/oxygen

  As TT says, it is without doubt the most complex theme we have here. Why theme designers don’t make it look like the demo right out of the box, nor supply instructions for getting it that way, I will never know.

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  hopoffthis · Member · Aug 15, 2013 at 3:54 pm

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  Hi, i need help with Hopoffthis.com i can’t even figure out how to make the featured slider appear. Please help.
  Thank You