Go to Settings > Reading and make sure you set the "Front page displays" to "Your latest posts".
The Title field of each slide is required. Make sure each of your slides has a title.
By Default the slider has a fixed height that you can change from Asteria Options > Slider > Slider height. If you want the slider to display full image, write auto in the "Slider Height" Field.
Go to Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most option and change the number of posts.
Go to Asteria Options > Miscellaneous Settings and set the "Show Comments" option to "Off"
By default the slider displays 3 default slides, if you want to remove the slider from your frontpage, set the slider type to “Disable Slider”. If you want to display sliders in your static pages, use the slider shortcode that comes with theme. See Shortcodes Section for details.
To setup post thumbnails, you should use the "Featured image" option of wordpress. While editing the post, on the right, notice there is a "Featured Image" box. Add your post thumbnail image from here. For best visual appearance, the minimium dimension of the thumbnails should be 350px x 235px
To setup video thumbnails, while editing the posts notice there is a box on right that says "Asteria Video Thumbnail". Add your youtube video link here to display it as a thumbnail of the post. You can display your youtube videos as thumbnails. Your viewers can play the video directly from the front page without going to the main post.
If you want to set up a blog page, you should use the "Blog page Template" that comes with the theme. To setup a blog page, follow these steps:
In Asteria, you can setup a contact page without any plugin. Just create a new page and select the "Contact Page" template from "Page Attributes" box and you are good to go. By default the contact page email address is set to your admin email address. You can change that from Appearance> Asteria Options> Miscellaneous.
In Asteria you can use different background color or images on different pages/posts. While editing the post/page notice on right there is a settings box called "Asteria Background per page". You can set the background color/image from this options box.
With Asteria you can use different page header for different pages. Each pages of your site can have different image. You can setup different page headers while editing the page. In page editor, notice there is a box on right that says "Asteria Page header" Under this you can either select a different image as your page header. Make sure the width of the image is at-least 1200px. If you are using the "Full Width" mode from the theme options page, then the image should be at-least 1600px wide.
With Asteria you can setup beautiful galleries without any plugins. Example
To set up a gallery, follow these steps:
Note: To disable this feature, Go to Appearance> Asteria Options> Miscellaneous Settings and turn off the Beautify My Galleries option.
With Asteria you can change the color of every elements and text.
Asteria comes with 15 Custom Widgets. You can add them to your widget areas from Appearance> Widgets. The widgets are
Asteria comes with 29 amazing easy to use shortcodes with inline documentation helper. You can use these shortcodes in your posts, pages and also in your text widget.
Theme support of the free version is provided here:
http://www.towfiqi.com/forums/forum/asteria-lite
Theme Support for the premium version is provided here:
http://www.towfiqi.com/forums/forum/asteria-pro