Separating Slider Posts with Blog Roll

Hi Jon,

I hope you are well today and thank you for your questions.

Is there any way that I can separate the posts in the slider from the posts on my home page? For instance, I have four posts in my slider and then the same four posts below.

You can exclude slider posts appearing anywhere on the site by developing custom code as developed here https://colorlibsupport.com/t/suppress-slider-on-posts-page/#post-24989

Also you can use pages for the slider instead of posts by developing solution as described here https://colorlibsupport.com/t/slider-for-pages/#post-33351

Next, can I limit the amount of posts on the home page? I don’t want there to be more that 5.

You can limit the number of posts that are shown on home page by setting the number in the site option “Blog pages show at most” as shown in the attached screenshot.

Best Regards,
Movin