Slider images too small

@nussarthur: I don’t know what’s going with your site. Looks like you have conflict with your two plugin. One is thumbnail editor and Jetpack plugin “Photon” module. So, try disabling one and check in.

@nussarthur: I check in your site and see that there is slider. Just that the image size is wrong. You have image of size 550px by 313px width. Edit those post and use larger featured images. For example, you can see that the original image you have uploaded that is thecolddeadhand.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Papers_pile_350.gif is just width 350px and height 407px.

But our slider width is Width: 976px. So, your image width is not enough so it couldn’t expand it.

@nussarthur: Your second image is huge only in terms of height and not in terms of width. See the image you have attached thecolddeadhand.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/statue-of-liberty1.jpg . This image height is 412px but width is only 550px. But we need the image size of width 976px and height 313px. So, it cut down you extra height.

@nussarthur: Yes for post slider you need to create the image of that size or higher then it will crop exactly in width 976px and height 313px

@nussarthur: If you want to stretch and fit your image then it’s fine, you can just add the following css in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box.

.featured-slider .wp-post-image {
    height: auto;
    width: 100%;
}

@nussarthur: Now I can see your image has width 976px and height 313px. It’s perfect.

@nussarthur: Simple Catch Free theme doesn’t have font option. So, you might want to consider using font plugin for that.

Yes, you have one search box in header and another in your sidebar widget. You can remove the search box from your sidebar widget from “Appearance => Widgets”.