OXYGEN THEME – I need help with slideshow, it dose not work!!

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  godhouseofprayer · Member · Aug 8, 2013 at 6:31 pm

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  Hello,
  Im new to wordpress and im trying to help my local church develop a wordpress site. I like the Oxygen theme but i cant get the slideshow to show. I have read up to ‘add to feature on location, in post tab but this dose not work’
  Please help me.
  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Aug 8, 2013 at 6:35 pm

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  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.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/oxygen

  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
  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 one into each one 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/

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  godhouseofprayer · Member · Aug 9, 2013 at 8:40 am

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  Hello,
  Thank you very much for your support.
  I have created a home page, I have uploaded feature images in the right dimension, I have ensured the images are post Sticky.
  However it still does not work and does not look anything like the theme.
  The post appears on the blog page.

  What else can I do, I’m getting so frustrated as it for my church and i wish they could make using that theme easier!

  Thanks for your help

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  timethief · Member · Aug 9, 2013 at 10:29 pm

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  I’m sorry but I have no further help to offer. Perhaps another Volunteer or Themes Staff can assist you.

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  cainm · Staff · Aug 10, 2013 at 3:28 pm

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  Hi there,

  As @timethief mentioned, you’ll need to use the “Showcase Page” template on your homepage for the slider to show up in the Oxygen theme.

  Page templates can be set under the “Page Attributes” section on the page editor screen. For more information on Page Attributes:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/

  Please let me know if you have any questions.

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  hopoffthis · Member · Aug 19, 2013 at 2:55 pm

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  @cainm Hi my website is hopoffthis.com and i cant figure out how to make the homepage slider appear even though i have set up a home showcase page can you please help me?