Sketch theme: how to add post carousel?
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I have just implemented the Sketch theme because I want to try having a featured posts carousel on my home page. I have been playing around for hours and searching but cannot figure out how to do so or find any information on it. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Hi there. Go to Appearance ->Customize ->Featured content in your dashboard and make sure you have a tag assigned for featured content. Then assign that exact tag to the posts you want to appear in the slider. Lastly make sure that those posts have featured images attached. See your theme’s support doc for the optimal width for featured images: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sketch/
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Thank you for your help, but that didn’t work. I assigned the tag and my home page changed to showing those posts with the tag but in normal post format — no slider at all. I do have featured images assigned for all my posts so I have no idea what’s going wrong.
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It could be that the slider is only for portfolio projects, not posts, but I’m not sure and can’t find an answer in another thread. I’ll tag this for staff to follow up, so please be patient while waiting for their response.
I’ve also been meaning to play around a bit with the theme to test it out over the weekend, and I’ll let you know if I figure out anything.
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Me again. I’ve trying a few things with the theme and, while posts do in fact appear in the slider, the slider only seems to be available for the Portfolio Page. You can see in the support doc how to create the portfolio page.
I’m leaving the staff tag so they can confirm this, but from my testing it doesn’t seem like the slider is available for the posts page.
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I already have many featured posts with the tag featured1. No slider. I would like a carousel or slider of images at the top in place of a header image. Thank you.
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I don’t know if I really require the use of a “portfolio” for my blog. Lol. Unless this portfolio option can also be just a section at the top, where the header goes, like a widget, I really don’t see the point.
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@iamaveronica
Please read what I wrote above. It appears that the post slider is only available on the portfolio page, not on the posts page. We’re waiting for staff for a definite answer. -
Thank you so much for your help, @kokkieh. Any idea how long staff usually take to answer these things?
@iamaveronica, glad to hear I am not alone :)
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@gelatiforbreakfast
They’re taking a bit longer than usual – there appears to be quite a backlog of tagged threads. Hopefully they’ll get to this within a couple of days.Please try to keep from posting here as that actually moves your thread to the back of the queue based on the timestamps.
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Hi there,
The Sketch theme is designed to feature portfolio projects, rather than blog posts. You can enable the slider by setting up the Portfolio Page Template as described here: https://wordpress.com/themes/sketch/
The slider will then appear on your Portfolio Page, populated with your featured content. If you have questions about setting up that template or getting the slider to work once that template is set up, please let me know!
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@rachelmcr
Thanks for confirming that the slider only works on the Portfolio Page. It does display featured posts as well as projects, though. -
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Is there a way to have a carousel in posts/pages beside the home page. I see this in one of the demos (http://jdnarchitecture.com/images/black-and-white/#jp-carousel-214) and really like it!
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@prettygoose
That site is using an image gallery carousel, completely different from the featured content slider we’ve been discussing in this thread.Image galleries can be used on any post or page, and even in widgets in your blog’s sidebar. You can create an image gallery using the Add Media button in the post/page editor and you need to enable the carousel under your media settings. See here for complete instructions:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/media-settings/#image-gallery-carousel
http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/
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