Oxygen theme not working

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  rachelleclinton · Member · May 29, 2014 at 11:42 am

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  I uploaded the “oxygen” theme and I can not get it to look like the template. I am using wordpress as a host.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 29, 2014 at 12:55 pm

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  Congratulations on choosing the single most complicated theme we have. Go to the Themes forum and familiarize yourself with the way that theme works, because you’re right: out of the box it doesn’t work the way the demo does. It needs to be configured, and your posts edited to work with it.

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  mariinyrop · Member · May 30, 2014 at 3:16 pm

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  hello,
  i marked a recent post in my oxygen themed blog as sticky, and not only is it not showing up in the slider, but it is not showing up under ‘recent articles’ either; it can be found under the appropriate ‘blog’ page, but that’s it.
  i only have four sticky posts, so that shouldn’t be the problem. any thoughts?

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2014 at 3:35 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
  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/

  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.

  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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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2014 at 3:41 pm

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  Oxygen theme- recent articles
  If you mark all of your posts as sticky posts then know they will all appear in the post slider and none will appear under recent articles.