How to adjust slide duration on Venue theme?

Store Design

Topic summary

Goal: reduce a Venue theme slideshow’s minimum interval below the 5-second preset (target 2–3 seconds).

Proposed approach: edit theme settings directly.

  • Path: Online Store > Themes > (… ) > Edit code > config/settings_data.json.
  • Find key slider_home_rate and set milliseconds (e.g., “3000” for ~3 seconds) and save.
  • Note: Value is in milliseconds; 1000 ms = 1 second.

Theme applicability and evidence:

  • Claimed to work across various themes, but confirmation for Venue is pending.
  • A request was made to review slideshow.liquid (the slideshow section/template) to verify implementation details.

Current obstacles/updates:

  • The store owner couldn’t locate the slideshow.liquid file and shared their store URL for review.
  • Another store using the Expanse theme reported that slider_home_rate is not present in settings_data.json and also shared a URL; they want a 3-second interval.

Status: unresolved/ongoing.

  • Next steps: verify whether Venue/Expanse define slider_home_rate or an equivalent setting; if absent, adjust timing in the slideshow section/template file (e.g., slideshow.liquid or its JS) or add a custom setting. Additional code review is required.
Summarized with AI on December 30. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi

I’m using the venue theme and one of my sections is a slideshow the ‘Change slides every’ section is set to the lowest of 5 seconds, is there anyway to make this perhaps 2 or 3 seconds?

Thank you in advance

2

Hey @kooger21 ,

In order to adjust the slideshow speed beyond the presets, you will need to make some custom coding changes to your theme.

  1. Go to your dashboard, locate the online store, and then themes. Next to the customize button on your active theme, click the drop-down and click edit code.

  2. In the folder directory on the next screen, open up the folder called config, then click settings_data.json.

  3. Once open hit ctrl+F to open the finder. Then enter ’ slider_home_rate ’ and that line of code is your inputted slider speed from within the customized theme settings. Mine was ‘5000’ (5 seconds), if yours was 3 seconds it would be 3000 as it’s measured in the code in milliseconds.

    "slider_home_rate": "3000"

  4. Change this to any value you like and then hit the blue save button in the top right corner.

This method has worked on a variety of themes, please share your store URL so I can check if it’s applicable to your store.

Look forward to hearing from you!

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Hi @kooger21 ,

Can you share code slideshow.liquid file?

Thanks you

4

I looked for the file as you suggested but i couldnt find it - my URL is - justjustbaby.com

5

hey, i’m running into the same issue, i cannot find slider_home_rate in my config/settings_data.json. folder. any idea? i’m on Expanse theme and site URL is 4a2601-3c.myshopify.com

hoping to change to every 3 seconds