Not sure why the plugin is behaving this way but whenever I refresh the page with the carousel plugin, the containing div is blank for like 5-seconds then the carousel will begin to function normally--sliding through.
I created a slimmed down version just to see if there were other things getting in the way of things. Here's what I have:
<html>
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="bootstrap.min.css" type="text/css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/carousel.css" type="text/css">
        <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/bootstrap-transition.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/bootstrap-carousel.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(function() {
                $('#myJumbotron').carousel();
            }); 
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <!-- JUMBOTRON
===================================================================== -->
        <div class="container">
            <div class="row">
                <section class="span16">
                    <div id="myJumbotron" class="carousel">
                        <div class="carousel-inner">
                            <div class="item">
                                <img src="images/jumbotron.jpg" alt="Featured specials" />
                            </div>
                            <div class="item">
                                <img src="http://placehold.it/940x380" alt="Featured specials" />
                            </div>
                            <div class="item">
                                <img src="images/jumbotron.jpg" alt="Featured specials" />
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <a class="left carousel-control" href="#myJumbotron" data-slide="prev">‹</a>
                        <a class="right carousel-control" href="#myJumbotron" data-slide="next">›</a>
                    </div>
                </section>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>
I used the SimpLESS tool to only compile the carousel.less file to its own carousel.css file and the bootstrap.min.css is unmodified as well.
You can see what's happening when going here: furnitureroadshow.com. Any help on this would be much appreciated.
You can simply use the data-interval attribute of the carousel class. It's default value is set to data-interval="3000" i.e 3seconds. All you need to do is set it to your desired requirements.
To turn off the autoplay set data-mdb-interval="false" next to a . carousel .
The Data-interval attribute is used to set the interval time between two carousel item by default its value is 3000 milliseconds.
Use the [interval]="'0'" input. This will disable the auto-sliding feature. Here's the link to the Carousel Documentation.
add for the first item class "active" in html, now you are waiting for 1 cycle .
EX:
                       <div class="item active">
                            <img src="images/jumbotron.jpg" alt="Featured specials" />
                        </div>
                        <div class="item">
                            <img src="http://placehold.it/940x380" alt="Featured specials" />
                        </div>
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