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Hi mzstade. Sorting the slider posts requires a modification to one of the theme files. If you don’t currently have a child theme I’d recommend you install one first. You can download one from within the theme (Theme Options, Help tab upper right). Then copy /inc/featured.php from the parent theme to /inc/featured.php in your child theme. In that file find this at the top:

$featured = new WP_Query(
	array(
		'no_found_rows'			=> false,
		'update_post_meta_cache'	=> false,
		'update_post_term_cache'	=> false,
		'ignore_sticky_posts'		=> 1,
		'posts_per_page'		=> ot_get_option('featured-posts-count'),
		'cat'				=> ot_get_option('featured-category')
	)
);

Add the “order by” line:

$featured = new WP_Query(
	array(
		'no_found_rows'			=> false,
		'update_post_meta_cache'	=> false,
		'update_post_term_cache'	=> false,
		'ignore_sticky_posts'		=> 1,
		'orderby'        		=> 'rand',
		'posts_per_page'		=> ot_get_option('featured-posts-count'),
		'cat'				=> ot_get_option('featured-category')
	)
);

Here’s a Codex page reference to sorting posts in WP_Query.

Ok, that works fine. Thanks.