Showcase template for Oxygen

• 

  annettelanniee · Member · Dec 1, 2014 at 9:15 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I am using the Oxygen theme and am new to the wp.com community. I upgraded services and am trying to set up the showcase template, similar to the demo page. Other than static page and menu, I do not see how to showcase posts.
  The forums, while containing lots of info, are more advanced than I. Where do I go?

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

• 

  timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2014 at 9:17 pm

  • Copy link

  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/

• 

  annettelanniee · Member · Dec 1, 2014 at 9:41 pm

  • Copy link

  Yeah, I’ve been staring at that page for awhile now, clicking links, reading the info. What I missed and will share here for others (it appears to be a popular question) is this:

  When you set up your menu for the static page and designate a page for HOME and a page for BLOG, when on the HOME page, go to the top under screen options, select page attributes and below you will see the option for Showcase page.

  Now I just need to figure out the pics.

  Thanks

• 

  timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2014 at 9:50 pm

  • Copy link

  Ah … that’s here:

  To use the template, create or edit a page, and assign it to the Showcase Page template from the Page Attributes module. If you’d like use the Showcase Page template on your front page, go to Settings → Reading and set the Front page option to Static Page. Select the page you just assigned the Showcase Page template to as your front page and then choose another page to serve as your blog page.

  Happy blogging!