Arras Slideshow Setup

UPDATE: My friend emailed me yesterday and told me he found the instructions, right on the dashboard of the template settings. I had actually seen these when I was looking around the template, but it was talking about ‘thumbnails,’ so I thought I didn’t care. i guess I should have paid more attention.

A friend of mine was building out a WordPress site using the Arras Theme and he was having a hard time getting the image rotator on the home page to work. He asked me if I had any ideas, and after looking around, and coming up totally empty, I told him I would come back to it later. Eventually, he found the solution on Google. Here is what he found: http://i43.tinypic.com/4ida3n.jpg, on this site, http://wordpress.org/support/topic/286802 .

1. Click on the upload image icon and upload your image, with recommended dimensions of at least 700×300.
   
2. Once the image has uploaded, click on File URL and copy the URL that is generated in the Link URL field.
   
3. In a post that is in one of the featured categories, create a custom field called ‘thumb’ and paste the URL in there. It is the excerpt from this post, and this thumb image, that are pulled into the opening image rotator. Make sure your post is in the featured category, as defined in the arras options.
   
4. If you did everything right, it should work.
   

I am not sure how we were supposed to figure that out on our own. Thanks, scarpi21.