Showcase page in Oxygen theme

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  marydeeharris · Member · Sep 14, 2013 at 8:45 pm

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  I’m trying to use the Oxygen theme which mentions the showcase page option. But I can’t find anything about the showcase page.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 14, 2013 at 8:46 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.

  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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  marydeeharris · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 7:26 pm

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  Thanks for the help! I had gone through most of those pages, but somehow missed the sticky post part. Figuring that out solved my problem with the slider. Now I can help my friend create the blog site that she wants!

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  bieresdechambly · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 11:25 pm

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  A video instruction would be helpful… I’m more of a visual type of guy.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 11:27 pm

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  If you want to request that videos be made for each and every theme (hundreds of them) then you can click this link and post into the Idea Forum https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas

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  bieresdechambly · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 11:36 pm

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  I found through a screen capture on the Oxygen page:

  http://oxygendemo.wordpress.com/

  … and then using my picture editor (Paint.net) that the picture size dimensions are the following:

  Sticky post thumbnails = 750px wide x 380px tall.
  Regular post thumbnails = 470px wide x 140px tall.
  Small sticky post thumbnails (6 in the slider) 110px wide x 70px tall.