slider in center, menus in right and left sidebars

I found the documentation but it doesn’t seem to answer my question.

When I use the “featured home page” option, the slider works but the grid layout I selected does not take effect. When I changed to the “landing page” option, the grid layout takes effect but the slider does not work.

Although the theme supports four menu positions, it’s not clear how to put a menu where I want it. There is a choice of section or subsection menu (what that means is unclear), but there is no choice of right or left sidebar.

Is there a way to put the slider in the center with one menu on each side using this theme?

After studying the documentation playing around with the various options, I figured out how to get slider in the middle with a menu on either side:

1) Create a page for the slider.
2) Create a gallery on the page.
3) While still in “edit page”, select “image slider” as the page template.
4) In “settings – reading”, I set that page as the front page.
5) I uploaded a custom header and expanded the cropping box to include the entire image, 1100px wide. However, Voyage reduces the display of the custom header image to 98%, which makes it very difficult to line it up with the content area. I fixed this by putting the following CSS code in my child theme:

.container_12 .grid_12, .container_16 .grid_16 {
width: 100%;
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

6) In “appearance – theme options”, I set the grid width to match the custom header width, 1100px. I wanted half the width for the content area, one-quarter for each sidebar, so I choose 12 columns, and set 6 of them as content, 3 for each sidebar.

7) I created a menu named “left-sidebar-menu”. Four theme locations were offered in “menu settings” and in “manage locations”. “Top menu” and “footer menu” were obviously not for sidebars, so I tried “section menu”. That put the menu in the left sidebar. I created a “right-sidebar-menu” and tried “subsection menu”. That put it in the right sidebar. This is for a multisite network. The items in the left sidebar link to an English language site, the items in the right sidebar to a parallel site in another language.

Unfortunately, the slides always appear in random order even when the box in “edit gallery” for random order is not checked. I think this is a mistake, since checking that box will provide the option of randomization anyway. The image slider template is useless for me if I can’t fix the order of the slides. Please fix the theme so that the default for the image slider is fixed order.

The “featured blog” home page style has a slider that allows sidebars. To get it to slide, I had to make the posts sticky. Slide order is last posted first. However, it doesn’t fade although I choose the fade option.