# Slideshow

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A slideshow is a quick and interactive way to showcase content and information on your site. Slideshows let you display your most popular products/collections or shout out about what's new with a call-to-action button.&#x20;

## How to add a Slideshow to your Shopify store

{% hint style="success" %}
Steps

1. In the theme editor (**Customize**), click **Add section.**
2. Locate **Slideshow.**
3. Make necessary changes.
4. **Save.**
   {% endhint %}

## How to edit a Slideshow section

### Section settings

#### General settings

* **Container**: Set how the image sliders to be displayed as Full width/ Fixed width.
* **Slide height**: Set the height of the slides as Adapt to first image/ Small/ Medium/ Large.
* **Show pagination**: Enable pagination for the sliders.
* **Auto-rotate content**: Slideshow will run automatically when enabled. The duration time to change slides is between 2-10 seconds.

#### Mobile layout and Accessibility

You can enable/disable showing the content below images and change text alignment on mobile.

The section also lets you fill in the slideshow description for customers using screen readers.

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### Block settings

You can add images or videos to your sliders.

#### Image slide

Add an image for your slideshow. You can add an image for desktop and mobile view separately.

Set the overlay opacity to the image if needed.

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The recommended size is 1920x900px for desktop and 600x480px for mobile.
{% endhint %}

Adjust the desktop content position and desktop content alignment as you wish. To each image slide, you can add:

* Heading
* Subheading
* Description
* Button

The content on mobile will be centralized by default.

#### Video slide

Besides images, you can add videos to your slideshow section.&#x20;

* **Video**: Select a video you've uploaded to Shopify Files or insert a Youtube/Vimeo video URL.
* **Video alt text**: Describe the video for customers using screen readers. [Learn more](https://help.shopify.com/manual/online-store/themes/theme-structure/theme-features#video)

Similar to image slide, you can add content to your video slide with a:

* Heading
* Subheading
* Description
* Button.

{% hint style="success" %}
Looking for a slideshow with pinned products? You might be interested:

[slideshow-with-product](https://docs.foxecom.com/hyper-theme/theme-sections/slideshow-with-product "mention")
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