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  martinholliss · Member · Jun 24, 2014 at 7:24 am

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  Hi,

  I need to add more photos to the slideshow on our homepage, but can’t see how to do this. Can you help by pointing me to the right place?

  Many thanks.

  MARTIN

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 24, 2014 at 4:24 pm

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  Hi Martin,

  It looks like the domain http://www.blewburybrassband.org.uk redirects to this site: http://blewburybrassband.org/

  Is that the one you’re working on? If so, it uses the Soundcheck theme. Here are the instructions from the Soundcheck theme support page for setting up that slideshow area (called the “Hero Slides”):

  How to setup the Hero Slides area?

  Max Image Width: 1600×440 pixels

  The Hero Slides area is the large image carousel above the primary navigation at the top of each page. At it’s most basic level, here is how to create a “Slide”, as done in the theme demo:

  1. Create/Edit a Post and give it a title.
  2. Set a Featured Image. This image will be used as the large, full width image as seen in the demo.
  3. Add the slide to a special slides category (e.g. “Hero Slides”).
  4. Publish/Update the post.

  Setting the Hero Slide Category

  Now that you have at least one slide created, we can set Hero Slide category via the Appearance > Theme Options > Hero Slides. Here, we will want to set the “Category” option to use the “Hero Slides” category from the dropdown list. By doing this, we are telling the theme to use the posts in the “Hero Slides” category as the themes “Slides”.

  Slide Content

  The theme demo show a variety of slides, some with text, an image, a gallery, a video, or just plain. Any content you add to the slides content area will be displayed over the background image (Featured Image). Additionally, you can set a Format for the slide. For example, if you add a video to the content area, you can assign it to be a “Video” format. This will treat the slide a bit differently in terms of styling. If you just want text, simply enter text in the slide and set the format to “Standard”.

  If you have any other questions about how that works, you can post in the Soundcheck theme forum to get more help directly from the theme author:

  http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/forum/soundcheck