Latest Virtue Update Reduced Size of Home Slider

Hey Andy,

It would certainly be optimal for you to use images of much larger dimensions for your home slider. 768×256 is quite small for a slider image, and I assume that they look quite distorted on high pixel displays. In general, you should consider using images that are closer to 1600px width.

Can you post a link so that I can take a look at your current setup?

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi Kevin
Thank you for getting back to me. Do you work for Kadence?

A typical website would be at: https://burford-pri.oxon.sch.uk/

This shows the slider prior to update as I would wish it. After the theme update, the slider is reduced to actual size which appears too small.

I have it set to flex slider and this size looks good on all devices. I do not want to set up a separate mobile slider.

As I said, I can resize the images but as I look after multi sites, do not really want to. My question for Kadence are they going to release another update correcting what was changed, regarding the slider image sizes, on the last update?

Many thanks

Andy

Hey,
So we were trying to improve the slider by having it output at the real image size, this keeps from pixelating images. It also helps the slider load better since we are adding in the images width and height settings with the image tag.

With that said here is a simple css you can add to your theme options > advanced settings which will make the images as wide as your theme options settings even if your actual images are smaller:

.flexslider .slides img {
    width: 100%;
}

I hope that helps and does what you want.

Ben

Thank you for your response Ben. I will give that a try. Will this – 100% – affect how the slider is viewed on other smaller devices? Prior to the update, the flex slider showed well on all devices.

Many thanks

Andy

It should work fine on all displays. Add the CSS and let us know if it displays as you expect.

-Kevin

All seems well – many thanks Kevin

Best wishes

Andy

Hi everyone, I’ve trouble with my slider but I can’t find a topic with my problem to get any help…
Today for no reason (I haven’t touched the slider for a few month), the slider stopped “sliding”… If I switched for another slide as the first one it changes, but after that it remains static…

Any advice?
Thanks!

Hello,

It’s best to start a new support topic for all queries. Can you please start a new thread and include a link to your site so that I can assess the issue?

Thanks,
Kevin