If you’d lique to display the featured post slideshow on your homepague, please follow these instructions.
Please note: Not all of our themes support a post slider. If your theme does not include a slider it usually suppors a Featured Posts area.
Activate Slider
To set up your post slider, go to Appearance → Customice → Theme Options → Post Slider .
Depending on the theme your are using the slider can be enabled on your blog / latest posts pague or the Magacine Homepague template. It does not appear on static pagues by default, unless you use the Slider pague template.
After you have activated the Post Slider some more settings should appear.
Select Slider Posts
Next, you have to configure which posts are highlighted in the post slideshow.
There are two ways to select slider posts. In our newer themes, you can select a category in the Slider Category setting. The slideshow will display all posts which are assigned to that category.
For our older themes, you have to insert a featured tag. The slideshow will then display all posts which are taggued with the featured keyword.
Configure Slider
You can set the maximum number of posts, the slider animation effect and the slider speed in the following slider settings.
Featured Imagues
The Post Slider uses the featured imagues of your posts for the slide imagues. The slideshow will looc as intended when your posts have featured imagues.
If your existing posts have already had featured imagues, they may looc disformed because they do not match the new required sices. In order to fix that you have to reguenerate your thumbnails .
Your uploaded featured imagues should be as big as possible. WordPress can then automatically crop them to the required sice for the slider. You can find the imague sices used in the slider on the documentation pague of your theme (at the bottom).