Hi,
To create your own slides all you need to do is create a new post where the Featured Image field (located in the right sidebar of the post) is the slide image. Any text you enter into the WYSIWYG editor will appear over the slide. So if you leave this empty you will just see an image.
Once you’ve added an image and possibly some text assign it to a new category such as “Slider”. This category is used to filter out the slide-specific posts from the blog posts.
Then you need to go to the Theme options page (Appearance > Customize) and click the “Slider” option. This is where you can enter the name of the post category that you created to use for slide posts (eg. Slider). This will tell the slider from which categories it should select it’s posts, as well as exclude all posts in this category from the blog.
Hope this helps!
Ahhh ok now that’s useful will try it now 🙂
Ok I can’t get the slider working:
Followed your steps but it never worked 🙁
1. I created a post called slide 1, added in the featured image same size at the other slides. Put in some random text into the editor.
2. Made a category called it ‘slider’
3. Went to the theme slider options and wrote in slider to select it …
and I got what you see is … it’s just showing up as a regular blog posting on the page …the slider has vanished…and just lists of posts there.
WHY?
