Featured Post Slide

I am having the same problem. I have a static front page, and I have the Display a slider of sticky posts on the front page checked, and have a post marked as sticky, but it displays on the Blog page, not the front page. Is there a way to make it display on the actual front page?

I was able to get it working on my static front page, finally. The static front page was using the content-sidebar template, not the page.php that everyone else seems to be using in the other threads. Which template you’re using for the static front page shows up when you open the static front page in “Edit Page.” It’s on the right, under Page Attributes>Template.

Here’s a step by step of what I did (all using the Theme Editor page):
1. Open index.php and copy the first 3 lines.
2. Open template-content-sidebar.php and after the container line, (div id=) inserted a line and pasted in those 3 lines.
3. On the first of those lines, changed “is_home” to “is_front_page”
4. Save.
5. Open functions.php. My lines aren’t numbered, but if you do a “find” for “flexslider”, go to the 4th instance (the last one). On the stuff right before that, again change “is_home” to “is_front_page”
6. Save.
7. Go back to index.php, and delete those 3 lines to get the slider off the blog page.
8. Save.

Voila! If you’re smarter than me, you probably did a child page template first, but so it goes.

That makes it work fine on a computer, but it does not work on mobile, so there’s still improvement to be had there.