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  ppattis · Member · Jan 3, 2013 at 4:02 am

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  I cant find the post slider for my theme oxygen.

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 4, 2013 at 7:59 pm

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  Hi there,

  To enable this, you have to set up a showcase page first that will serve as a static front page. It’s described here as “Showcase page template”
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/oxygen/

  So, first, you will need to make a new page, and assign it the Showcase Page template (this is on the New Page page, under Page Attributes on the right side). You don’t have to add any content to this page. Make sure to use a title that makes sense to you (you can name it “homepage” or “showcase” if you like).

  Publish the page.

  Go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading; Front page displays a… (select Static page and choose the page you just created).

  Select a Posts page (this is where your blog items will show up – it can be any page; you can even create a specific page that you may name Posts or Blog for this) – it cannot be the Showcase page.

  Scroll down and click Save Changes.

  You’ll need to make some posts “sticky” (you can mark existing posts as sticky by going to Dashboard > Posts > All Posts, click the checkbox in front of all the posts you’d like to make sticky, choose “edit” from the dropdown box, and then click “apply,” select “make sticky” from the drop down box all the way on the right, and click save). These posts will have to have a featured image set, in order to show up.

  Then you should be all set!

  Just let me know if you run into any issues.