Featured Slider

Adding a featured slider to your homepage in simple steps.  While you create a post for your blog or website create a custom field with the name featured_image and value Path to featured Image eg: http://www.domain.com/uploads/image-featured.jpg. Once you add the custom field it will call back from the database to your featured slider.

You can assign and one category or all the categories for the featured items and you have an limits option in themes option page where you set  the limit for featured article items by entering the value “5″ Number of items to display on homepage featured slider,  Enable or disable the slider as well.

Slider Image

Set your featured slider/article image of width 600x pixels wide and 280 pixels height. Do no exceed the width which makes your page mess with other browsers.

Changing any css for the slider or Colors or border colors etc open theme.css file in and search for the Featured Article comment and add or edit css which suits your theme.

Slider Speed Setting

This featured slider is not editable or do not have any options other than a transition timeout settings.
This takes from the category which you set from the admin area. You can enable or disable this feature via admin area.

Editing the timeout or transition between the fade-in fadeout you can set that from header.php file just editing below code in it

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('#slider1').s3Slider({
            timeOut:3000
        });
    });
</script>