Soliloquy is perhaps the best WordPress slider plugin out there. It is simple, light-weight, very well optimized for speed and comes with excellent support.
Note: Soliloquy does not have the bells and whistles like layers that are present in LayerSlider and Revolution. If you need layers and a variety of animations, go with one of those.
In this article I show how we can set up a full width responsive Soliloquy slider below the Navigation in Genesis.
Summary of steps:
- [Optional] Load Arvo Google font for slide title and Call to Action button text
- Register Home Slider widget area
- Display Home Slider widget area's contents below Navigation on homepage
- Upload slides and configure Soliloquy especially the HTML for captions to show a title, content and a CTA button
- Add CSS to ensure that slide images go full width, style caption elements and display the caption below images at lower widths.
Step 1
Add the following in child theme's functions.php:
