What helped me is to realize that this theme is designed as a blog site rather than a website, so much of the logic for functionality revolves around a blog post.
The slider images come from the featured image from an individual blog post. So create a blog post, set the featured image and then look at the number associated with it in the url (in the address bar of your browser the entire url is displayed, you’ll see post & then a number use just the number). It is best to have all these images be the same size, otherwise your engagement area (slider) jumps up & down.
Now go to Appearance > Theme Options > Featured Post Slider > Featured Post Slider Options and under the post number enter just that number from the post in the url. It will call up that specific image on your home page in the order you assign it. The heading for the image is your blog post name and you can change the caption by entering your copy in the excerpt box in the edit post section. If you don’t see excerpt you can turn it on through screen options by checking the box.
Finally, you can eliminate the featured post images which fall underneath the main image, by disabling the Homepage Featured Content under Homepage Settings >Homepage Featured Content Options.
If this is unclear or you have more questions, I can try and help, just hit me back.
rsolosky
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