Add a Slider
- On the front end (not the dashboard), go to the page you want to add-to or edit eg. mywebsite.com/about
- Click the Page Builder item in the WordPress admin bar at the top.
Other ways of launching the page builder
- Go to the WordPress dashboard
- Go to Pages or Posts in the sidebar
- Hover over the page name, and click Page Builder
Once the page builder is open, decide if you want simple image slider, or something more complex with a title and text content from your posts.
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Row-based slider
If it's a simple image, then chances are that a row-based slider will be fine. In a row-based slider, the image covers the background of the whole row. In this method, rather than adding a module, you simply set the background of the row to be a slider.
- Assuming the page builder is active, hover over the row until the Row's controls appear at the top left. Click the Row Settings (spanner icon) button. The Row Settings window will appear.
- Scroll down until you see the settings for the row's background. Choose Slideshow.
- Then proceed to modify the settings for the slider / slideshow.
- Assuming the page builder is active, hover over the row until the Row's controls appear at the top left. Click the Row Settings (spanner icon) button. The Row Settings window will appear.
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Slideshow Module
Or perhaps you need an image slider that's contained within a smaller area. In that case the Slideshow Module may be better.
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Content Slider
The other two options are the Content Slider and Post Slider, which allow the display of post text content: title and excerpt.
They are similar in concept to each other, though different in execution. Generally the Content Slider is considered more powerful, and probably closer to what you want. The Content Slider allows for video backgrounds too.