How to activate showcase page template

I don’t know what those things are, because you don’t say. But to activate a template you have to be sure it says <?php /* Template Name: template_name */ ?> on the top and it will appear on the right hand side (a dropdown menu) for you to chose from when creating or editing a page.

Please explain a little more.

I would like to have a showcase page as my home page when you enter my blog. This means that my recent posts are shown on the frontpage.
The problem is that I can not get it to work, though I’ve done it as wordpress says I should do.
My theme is Oxygen.

Ok, @amandatrayce, sorry but this is not a thread to talk about that. Perhaps you should open your own topic after searching for an answer.

@stinejuellund, you still don’t say what is that you have done. I’m telling you what you should have done, so see if it matches.

1) If you want your recent posts on your homepage, you don’t need a showcase page. Go to Settings >> Reading and select “Your latest posts”.

2) If you want to be able to tune the way they appear and prefer to use a template, have on the root folder of your theme a file named: template-whatever.php and be sure it has <?php /* Template Name: whatever */ ?> written at the top and a wordpres loop of posts with whatever other code you want. Create a new page and apply the template to it. Go to Settings >> Reading and select your page as Front Page. Be sure to also create one for the blog and apply Blog to the posts page.

cheers!

I have set my posts up to be viewed showpage front, and I have created a new page to show page (ie home) and one for my blog (ie blog).

But I would like my show page as it appears in demo form on the theme Oxygen, where you can see the six most recent posts with large images where the so slider.

It’s hard to explain further! But thanks for your time and help!

At this point I would recommend that post into the Oxygen support forum or write to them if there is any support contact information available.

I’m sorry.