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Image Slideshow

Last Updated April 2025

Depending on your content needs you will use one of the two slideshow plugins.

  • The RoyalSlider is your best option for displaying image, video, text or HTML.
  • The Genesis Responsive Slider is your best option for displaying existing website content such as featured articles, pages or posts.

For either options, please contact us to set up the best slideshow solution for displaying your content.

RoyalSlider

The Davis Mountain range from above in a soft and cool mid afternoon light
scrub brush and and spiny trees in silhouette against the cool blue dusky sky
The Davis mountains and peaking through a stand of cacti and trees
West Texas mountain top, looking like stacked rows of red coins in a soft grassy field
very close view of spiny cactus with long undulating finger like branches
The RoyalSlider is an image, video, text or HTML slideshow carousel that can be embedded in pages, posts and widget areas, such as the sidebar and hero image area. To explore this option please contact us. For instructions on how to add content to your slider visit our RoyalSlider instruction page.

Genesis Responsive Slider

The Genesis Slider can display existing pages & posts from your website, functioning like a featured article slider. It can be added anywhere including as a hero on the homepage.

Once enabled, site editors can change the images by updating the “Featured Image” for the page in the slideshow. But if you want to change what page is linked to in the Slider, make sure it has a Featured image and notify the web team.

They are sorted by most recent date shown first, oldest date is last. Fortunately, you can edit the “Publish on Date” for your Posts or Pages that you are using in the slideshow.

Note the Featured Image for the a lead Story/Hero Image on the homepage should be 1600w x 460h

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