Slideshow Speed in the Dawn Theme

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Topic summary

A user needed to customize the Dawn theme’s slideshow functionality in two ways: reducing the minimum speed from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds, and making slideshow images clickable.

Speed Adjustment (Resolved):

  • Navigate to theme code editor: Online theme → Edit code → slideshow.liquid in sections folder
  • Locate the schema section and modify parameters: change “min” to 1.5 and “step” to 0.5
  • Save changes, then adjust speed in the theme customizer

Clickable Images (Resolved):

  • Add HTML link wrapper code above the slideshow text wrapper div
  • In the schema section, locate “image_picker” and add a new URL field:
{
"type": "url",
"id": "image_link",
"label": "Image Link"
}
  • After saving, an “Image Link” field appears in the theme customizer for each slide
  • The user initially encountered an “Invalid JSON” error but successfully resolved it with guidance

Both customizations were completed successfully. Screenshots throughout the thread illustrate the code locations and customizer interface.

Summarized with AI on November 1. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I tried making the adjustment but received the following error:

“Unable to update the file. Invalid JSON in tag ‘schema’.”

  1. Where should I paste the link for the first slide?
  2. Where should I paste the links for the next two slides?

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another place for a link:

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