Slide Options

Slide options are edited from the builder panel labeled Slide Settings. These controls affect only the active slide, not the entire slider and not an individual layer.

Where to Find Them

In the builder, slide options are available under the Slide Settings panel in the slideManager area.

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Typical Slide Workflow

Use Slide Settings immediately after creating or selecting a slide.

Recommended order:

1. select the target slide
2. open Slide Settings
3. choose the Background Style
4. configure the background media
5. return to the canvas and add layers

This keeps the slide frame ready before you start placing content on top of it.

What Slide Options Control

Slide options define the background and media presentation for the current slide.

They control:

• the slide background type
• the slide background color
• the slide background image
• the slide background video
• supporting media display settings such as image size, image position, repeat behavior, and video cover images

Background Style

The first slide option is Background Style. It determines how the slide background is built.

Available background styles include:

• Color
• Image
• External Image Source
• Featured Image
• JSON Image
• Video
• Transparent

Featured Image is primarily intended for sliders whose Source Type is Posts.

In that workflow, the active post’s featured image becomes the slide background automatically when the slide renders in preview or on the front end.

JSON Image is primarily intended for sliders whose Source Type is JSON import.

In that workflow, the slide background uses the field mapped as Image URL Field in the JSON source settings.

Image-Based Slide Options

When the slide uses an image background, the available options include:

• background image URL
• external image URL
• background image size
• background image position
• background image repeat
• background color overlay or base color

This group is also relevant when Background Style is:

• Image
• External Image Source
• Featured Image
• JSON Image

Background Image Size

The slide settings support:

• Auto
• Contain
• Cover

Background Image Position

Position choices include common placements such as:

• center top
• center center
• center bottom
• left top
• left center
• left bottom
• right top
• right center
• right bottom

Background Image Repeat

Repeat choices include:

• No-repeat
• Repeat
• Repeat-X
• Repeat-Y
• Round
• Space

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Color-Based Slide Options

When the slide uses a color, image, or external image background, the builder also provides a background color field.

This is useful for:

• solid-color slides
• fallback color behind transparent images
• tint or color layering in the slide design

For source-driven sliders, background-image styles are often paired with text, caption, button, or HTML layers that use placeholders such as:

• {{post_title}}
• {{post_excerpt}}
• {{post_link}}
• {{featured_image}}
• {{title}}
• {{description}}

Video-Based Slide Options

When the slide background style is set to Video, you can choose the background video source.

Supported video background providers are:

• HTML5
• YouTube
• Vimeo

HTML5 Background Video

For HTML5 video backgrounds, the slide settings can include:

• MP4 video URL
• WebM video URL
• OGG video URL
• video cover image URL

YouTube Background Video

For YouTube background videos, the slide settings can include:

• YouTube video URL
• YouTube cover image URL

Vimeo Background Video

For Vimeo background videos, the slide settings can include:

• Vimeo video URL
• Vimeo cover image URL

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Slide Options vs Slider Options

Use slide options when you want to change only one slide.

Examples:

• change one slide from an image background to a video background
• set a different cover image for one slide
• adjust the background image position for a single slide

Use slider options instead when the setting should affect the whole project.

Examples:

• autoplay
• transitions
• slider width and height
• dots, numbers, thumbnails, and controls