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HTML

<div id="images_holder">
          <div id="moving_part">
              <div>
                  <a href="You-Belong">
<img src="images/For-Smithfield-Slider-600x232.png" 
srcset="
images/For-Smithfield-Slider-1000x387.png 1000w, 
images/For-Smithfield-Slider-1920x743.png 1920w,
images/For-Smithfield-Slider-2880x1114.png 2880w
" alt=""/>
</a>
              </div>
              <div>
                  <a href="You-Belong">
<img alt="" src="images/You-Belong-Here-Slider1.png"></a>
              </div>
              <div>
                  <img alt="" src="images/Vision-Statement-01.png">
              </div>
          </div>

          <div id="prev">PREV</div>
          <div id="next">NEXT</div>
          <div id="description">Test</div>
          <div id="navigation"></div>
      </div>

CSS

#images_holder {
    float: left;
    width: 100%; 
}
#moving_part {
    width: 100%;

}
#moving_part > div {
    position: relative;
    width: 100%; 
    height: auto;
    float:    left;
}
#moving_part > div img{
    float: left; 
    width:  100%; 
    height: auto;
}
#prev, #next {
    position: absolute;
    cursor:   pointer;
    top:      47%;  
  display:  none; /* hide initially */
    -webkit-user-select: none;
            user-select: none;
}
#next{
    right: 0px;
}
#description{
    color:      #fff;
    background: rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
    text-align: center;
    position:   absolute;
    padding:    15px;
    right:      0;
    left:       0;
  display:    none; /* hide initially */
}

/* EXTRA: navigation */
#navigation{
  display:    none; /* hide initially */
  position:absolute;
    width:100%;
    bottom:0;
  text-align:center
}
#navigation span{ /* created by jQuery*/
    display:inline-block;
  background: rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
  cursor:pointer;
  padding:4px 10px;
}

JavaScript

jQuery(function( $ ){

    var efx  = "slide", // "slide" || "fade"
            animationTime = 600,
            pauseTime = 4000,
      $gal = $("#images_holder"),
        $mov = $("#moving_part"),
        $sli = $mov.find("> div"),
        $btn = $("#prev, #next"),
            $dsc = $("#description"),
            $nav = $("#navigation"), // Our buttons parent
            $navBtns, // Later, our SPAN buttons
            spans = "",
            w = $gal.width(),
            n = $sli.length,
            c = 0,  // Counter // Start index
            itv;    // Interval


for(var i=0; i<n; i++) {     // `n` is the number of slides!
    spans += "<span>"+ (i+1) +"</span>";
}
// Finally append our generated buttons:
$nav.append( spans );
// Retrieve the created buttons and do something on click
$nav.find("span").on("click", function(){
   c = $(this).index(); // Set our counter to the clicked SPAN index
   anim();              // Animate. That easy.
});


    // SETUP (fade or slide?)
    $mov.width(w*n);
    if(efx==="fade") $sli.css({position:"absolute", left:0}).fadeOut(0).eq(c).fadeIn(0);

    function populateDescription() {
        $dsc.text( $sli.eq(c).find("img").attr("alt") );
    }

    function anim() {
        c = c<0 ? n-1 : c%n; // loop-back if exceedds
        populateDescription();
        if (efx==="fade") {
            $sli.fadeOut(animationTime).eq(c).stop().fadeIn(animationTime);
        }else if(efx==="slide") {
            $mov.stop().animate({left: -c*w});
        }
    }

    function auto() {
        $btn.add($dsc).add($nav).stop().fadeOut(); // Hide UI
        itv = setInterval(function(){
           ++c;
           anim();
        }, pauseTime);
    }

    function pause() {
    $btn.add($dsc).add($nav).stop().fadeIn(); // Show UI
        return clearInterval( itv );
    }

  $gal.hover(pause, auto);

    $btn.on("click", function(){
        c = this.id==="next" ? ++c : --c;
        anim();
    });


    populateDescription();
    auto();

});