Frontpage-Slideshow displaying wrong category

  • Hi, I’m running a large site with lots of categories.

    In the preview mode for Frontpage-Slideshow I see the correct category (ie. the one I’ve selected) but when the site is live the slides are taken from the most recent posts which is not what I need. Only one category is selected.

    Also, my version of Frontpage-Slideshow (Unique ID 10412) no longer show the colours in the ‘About Colors and Opacities’ section. Even if I reset the plugin the colours do not appear, only their labels. Weird but not as frustrating as the category issue.

    This could be a great plugin but there are lots of quirky behaviours (the preview in particular seems very temperamental)

    Any ideas?

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  • For the categories problem, I was having the same issue, but if you just copy and paste the entire short code for example:
    [FrontpageSlideshow fs_cats=3 fs_slides=5 fs_main_width=605px fs_main_height=200px fs_slide_width=376px fs_buttons_width=224px fs_button_normal_color=#3c3c3c fs_button_hover_color=#515151 fs_button_current_color=#757575 fs_ul_color=#515151 fs_main_color=#515151 fs_rounded=0 fs_template=default]

    rather than the simple short code [FrontpageSlideshow]

    it’ll work just fine ??

    Yea, that worked for me.

    But I inserted:
    [FrontpageSlideshow fs_cats=3 fs_slides=5]

    Thant way all my configuration I made in the back-end of wordpress still rendered.

    I had the same problem and this fixed it. This bug might be the reason some people are saying that “the images will not display.” If the slider is pulling from the wrong category or post, and the post has no images, then it seems like a display/jquery/browser problem but it is really just a mixed up category problem.

    Just uploaded this onto another new site and it worked fine until about 5 hours into setting up all of the pages. It then began acting as if there was an extra blank slide (i.e., it would pause the same amount of time as an actual slide before playing the rest of the slides and then do the same as it looped through).

    Found evandiaz and carlosflores comments and tried hardwiring that into my header.php file (where I have the code posted for the slideshow) and it worked immediately. Thanks for the suggestions (I wouldn’t have thought about dealing with the shortcode in a PHP file…)

    Something like this:

    <?php
    // added by <yourname> in order to add the slideshow using the frontpage-slideshow plugin
    echo do_shortcode(‘[FrontpageSlideshow fs_cats=10 fs_slides=10]’);
    ?>

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