Sketch theme header won't display

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  santafepanama · Member · Mar 14, 2018 at 11:22 am

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  Just installed the Sketch theme to make a simple portfolio display. However neither the header nor the portfolio content will display. Maybe I overlooked a setting but I don’t know what. Thanks in advance for your help!

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

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  baldfreud · Member · Mar 14, 2018 at 11:36 am

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  Hi there,

  In order to properly view the portfolio images on the Sketch theme make sure you are using the Portfolio Page Template and that this page is set as a Static Front Page.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
  Another thing you have to do is to set Featured Images for your Portfolios and for the Front Page.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/
  For the slider on the Front Page, you have to use the Featured Content tag for the posts. In you customizer navigate to Featured Content and under Tag name write the tag you will be using, for example, “featured”, and click Publish. After you can go to each post you want to be featured in the slider and add the same tag to the posts.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/
  Let us know if it has worked and whether you need more help :)

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  santafepanama · Member · Mar 14, 2018 at 11:46 am

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  Thanks for the quick reply!
  The front page was already static as per instructions. After I set all the featured images for the portfolio they are now visible.
  The only thing not visible is the header image. It shows when visiting a portfolio image, but not on the home page

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 15, 2018 at 6:50 pm

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  Hi there – the Portfolio page template in Sketch replaces the header image with an optional Featured Content slider, in the same area where the header is displayed on other pages.

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  santafepanama · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 11:23 am

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  OK so if you choose portfolio you can’t get a header, only a slider?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 19, 2018 at 3:57 pm

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  OK so if you choose portfolio you can’t get a header, only a slider?

  Exactly.

  I don’t see a custom header set in your Customizer currently – did you decide not to have one, or is the homepage issue a blocker?

  Since you have access to custom CSS, we could try hand-coding a header image on the homepage. If you’d like me to try that, could you provide a link to the header image you’d like to use and I’ll see what we can do?

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  santafepanama · Member · Mar 20, 2018 at 1:11 pm

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  Thank you so much but it’s no longer required. The artist for whom I made this likes it clean without header.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 20, 2018 at 2:58 pm

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  Great – glad you’re all set.