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I need to replace the static image on my wordpress site's homepage with a slider.

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We have this website: http://www.rcssafety.com . You will see that the main image is static but we want to replace that with a slider that has text. I have never done this level of customization before so I would like to hopefully be pointed in the right direction as to how to go about this. The slider will have about 4-5 slides and text as well. Please help!

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Sorry, forgot to add some other important (I think) details. We purchased this theme on templatemonster.com and we have purchased a couple of other themes from them as well. All of the other themes contain sliders. So I thought that maybe I could pull the slider file from one of the other themes and use it for this theme. We contacted templatemonster to see how much it would cost for them to customize and it sounded like they would basically do this same thing. But they won't give instructions on how they perform the customization so I'd rather do it myself so I can learn more about how these themes are put together. Also, I know these sliders use the custom post type "slider" for these themes so I think I have to add a custom post type to my theme first. And then input the slider code. Please correct me if I am wrong in my thought process.

I would rather go about the code way versus the plugin way. Just for own learning reasons. However, if I decided to go about with the plugin way, where would I input the code for it to work. I installed the Soliloquy lite slider plugin and it gave me this code:

if ( function_exists( 'soliloquy_slider' ) ) soliloquy_slider( '823' );

It said to input this in the template file I wanted to get it to show up. Problem is, I don't know where to place it. I know the main image now is called the banner in the template files. But when I look at the homepage php file it is not calling the banner area. It's pulling it from somewhere else. Hope that makes sense. Where would I look to find that banner area and insert this code to make the slider work?

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Also, the banner area is edited in the widgets. But I do not know where it is defined in the theme files.

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I installed the soliloquy slider plugin and it gave me this code:

if ( function_exists( 'soliloquy_slider' ) ) soliloquy_slider( '823' );

It said to insert it in the theme files. I have attached the header.php file that shows the "banner" being called. The banner is the defined static image area. That area is currently editable in the appearance --> widgets area but inputing the short code there does not work so I figured editing the php file would be the only solution?
header.php

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