Certain themes come with a home page slider that either displays the latest posts or can be customized using the Slider admin page.
![Magazine Premium's Scrollerota](https://themes.bavotasan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mag-prem-slider.jpg)
Magazine Premium’s Scrollerota
On the Slider admin page, you have the ability to search for a post/page and add it as a custom slide. Each custom slide can be edited to replace the default title, image, excerpt and link. You can even reorganize the slide orders by dragging them around.
![Editing a Custom Slide](https://themes.bavotasan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mg-prem-slider-admin.jpg)
Editing a Custom Slide
If you just want to have the slider display the latest posts, but want to use a custom image instead of the featured image you can easily set the custom image on the post edit screen.
![Setting a Custom Slider Image](https://themes.bavotasan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/custom-image.jpg)
Setting a Custom Slider Image
Clicking on the “Set Image” button will bring up the Media Uploader where you can select or upload an image.
NOTE: Not all themes comes with a home page slider and certain themes, such as Tango, will only work using custom slides.