All the available themes come with a plugin to be able to add a slideshow to any widget area available for the theme. It is most common to add the slide show to the homepage so this tutorial will be about adding a slider to the homepage.
Each theme has different areas for the slider on the homepage, this tutorial is based on the Executive Pro theme.
Requirements:
Slide images (sizes vary depending on the theme but all the images should be the same size.)
Posts or pages with content
Each slide links to a page or a post, so the image to be displayed will have to be added to the page/post under the Featured Image box on the right column while in edit mode. Click on the Set feature image and select the image to add either from the Media Library or Upload Files for a new file and click on the Set Featured Image button.
After adding the featured images you are now ready to add them to your slider. The easiest way to do this is to use a post category. Your website should have a category called Featured, you can check by going to Dashboard > Posts > Categories. If there is no category for featured you can add one on this page.
We need to add the Featured category to your posts so all the posts under this category will display on the slider. You can add the category by selecting the check box in the Categories box on the right side column while in edit mode:
Adding the slider to the homepage
To add the slider to the homepage go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets where you will see all the regions and widgets available for your theme. To add the slider click and drag the Genesis – Responsive Slider to the region you want it displayed in the example below Home – Slider .
You can now go to your homepage and see the slider.
Adjusting Slider Settings Advanced
You can adjust the slider settings by going to Dashboard > Genesis > Slider Settings.
This is where you will select which category to display on the slider by choosing the Featured category from the drop down menu, you can also choose to display a page by entering the page number in the box, or the number of slides to show:
On the bottom section of this page you can set the size of the slider images different content settings that you can adjust as needed.
Here is the link to an advanced tutorial: http://philipgledhill.co.uk/genesis-responsive-slider/
Please contact us if you have any problems or questions.