Post slider

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    adamcardall · Member ·

    Hi

    I have started using WordPress for the first time and have managed to iron out most of the issues I’m having but I can work out how to activate the post slider that appears at the top of my theme. Could you help?

    Adam

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there. You need to set up featured content to have the post slider display. In your dashboard, go to Appearance ->Customize. In the featured content tab of the customiser, assign a tag that you’ll use for featured posts. Assign that tag to posts you want to display in the post slider and the slider should appear on your home page.

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    tsekimcheung · Member ·

    Hi. I was wondering if this would work if the front page is converted into a static page, or does the slide only work if the theme is set to latest posts?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Some themes have a showcase page template which usually include a slider (for example, twenty-eleven). If you use that template for your static page then you should be able to set up a slider, but it depends entirely on the settings for your theme.

    If your theme does not have a showcase template, then , as far as I know, the slider can only appear if your posts page is your home page and some themes don’t have a slider at all (though I think some of the portfolio themes, like Sketch, also has the slider for the portfolio page template if you use that for your home page).

    I’d recommend you create yourself a test blog (set it to private so it’s not visible), import/create a few posts and pages on it, and then you can use it to experiment with themes you like to see what’s possible and what not with a particular theme.

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