How To:
- Learn how to create a slide, add text to a slide and change the display order.
- Once you have slides how to add them to a page
Step by step text version of ” How to add a slideshow”
Slideshows are created under the Dashboard — “Slideshows”
1. Click on Slideshows and select “add new slide”
2.Give slide a title [title will not show on slide]
3. On the right-hand side – there is a box that reads “slide groups” > select “+Add New Slide Group” > name what your slide group will be [i.e. homepage] — this is how the on page slideshow element will know what slides to show on your page.
4. In the content box – if using captions — add your caption text
5. the image placement is on the right hand side under “Feature Image” – you can click on “set featured image” > will bring you into the asset repository >select image [upload image from another location if not in your asset repository]
Note: slider will adjust to the size of your image – if horizontal – will be horizontal; if more of a vertical image, will be vertical – make sure your images are the same orientation for each slide group.
6. Save your slide.
7. Repeat steps if more slides need to be added
Best Practices:
- Make all the slide images for a single slider the same dimensions (e.g. 770px x 300px )
- Slides are most mobile friendly if the background image is at least 770px wide so that the image remain crisp when expanding to fill the mobile layout.
- Don’t use Heading 1 in your slide overlay text.
Adding the slideshow to a page
8. Create a new or open an existing page where you want the slideshow to appear
- Go to the page where you want to add the slider > select “slideshows” from visual composer elements > slideshow element box will pop up – for most uses all you need do is add your slide category in the appropriate field [i.e. homepage or whatever you named your group/category] and “save”.
- The slider is now added to your page. View the page to make sure that all sliders are showing and that links work properly.
Note: you will always edit your slide under the dashboard – the on-page element is to add the slider to your page only but not used for editing the actual slide.