None of the wordpress slider plugins working in my custom theme

I am starting a new wordpress with custom theme. I started from scratch with index.php and style.css and functions.php. I am trying to add a slider plugin and none of them work. But they work when I change the theme to wordpress’s custom built in themes (twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, etc). What could be causing this? I dont see any errors on the console and I have already implemented Jqery as I am also using bootstrap.
I add codes like <?php do_action(‘slideshow_deploy’, ‘112’); ?>
to the page and it shows nothing. I am trying a plugin called slidershow by stefan boonstra and when i inspect, I see a div called slideshow_container and there are images in the children divs too but have pixel of 0X0 and its parent divs have display set to none. But I change my theme to twenty sixteen and include code [slideshow_deploy id=’112′] and it works fine.