[Plugin: Meteor Slides] The slideshow won't show on my homepage.

Something must be wrong with the child theme, try switching back to the parent.

I’m also trying to get the meteor slideshow to appear in a slideshow on my homepage.

I’m wondering, is there a way to get the slideshow to appear in the header space of the Twenty Eleven theme on the homepage only (all the other pages will have a static header image) ?

Thanks!

Oh, I found that you answered this earlier https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-add-slideshow-in-header-twenty-ten?replies=8#post-2127161

I’m going to take a look. Could take me a while to follow all of it but I’ll let you know if I have problems.

Many, many thanks!

I still can’t get this to work. I tried a bunch of times but get errors.

I’m trying to put the meteor slides on my homepage as well. Using a child theme of theme hybrid (https://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid).

I tried widget, shortcode, template tag, hook from functions.php.
its working other pages and posts, but doesn’t work only on homepage.
when I set “a static page” as a front page, it works. but using “Your latest posts” as a front page doesn’t work. why????

thanks,
azoneweb

@azoneweb It looks like Hybrid is using the index.php template for the “blog” homepage, did you try adding the template tag to this file?

Where exactly do you want to place the slideshow, can you post a link to the site you are working on?

I opened the index.php (original hybrid theme file), but it was empty like this

<?php
/**
 * Index Template
 *
 * This template should not be shown.  It is a placeholder.
 * Specific templates for each type of content are available.
 * @link https://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid/template-hierarchy
 *
 * @package Hybrid
 * @subpackage Template
 */

/* Simplicity is bliss. */
?>

I found home.php at parent theme directory so copy and past to my child them, but didn’t work. changed the name to front-page.php, didn’t work as well.
I wanted to send the site which I’m working, but its client site and can’t show anybody before launch ??

That’s strange, I downloaded a copy of Hybrid and the index.php file had a lot more code than that. But if you are trying to add this to the blog homepage, than the home.php file should be the correct place to add this. I don’t see a home.php file the copy of Hybrid I downloaded.

Where exactly do you want the slideshow? Depending on where it needs to go you might be able to edit a different file like the the header.php, or since this is a theme framework you probably want to add the slideshow using a hook.

actually I was using old version Hybrid theme so the index.php code was different. anyways I upgraded Hybrid so now my index.php has much longer code.
I want to show the slideshow at header part on the frontpage (hybrid hook name is “hybrid_after_header”).
I add this code in my function.php

add_filter ('hybrid_after_header' , 'void_content_gallery');

function void_content_gallery(){
if ( function_exists( 'meteor_slideshow' ) && is_front_page() ) {
	meteor_slideshow();
	echo "<p>this is hybrid_after_header test</p>";
}
}

the echo part is working. after I updated Hybrid, archive pages got the same probrem. (it was working before update)

sorry I put wrong code

add_filter ('hybrid_after_header' , 'void_content_gallery');

function void_content_gallery(){
if ( function_exists( 'meteor_slideshow' ) ) {
	meteor_slideshow();
	echo "<p>this is hybrid_after_header test</p>";
}
}

I’m testing this now.

So right now the echo is displaying, but the slideshow is not?

Hello everyone,

I seem to be having a slightly different problem with the slideshow.
I added the short code in a page/post and also added the widget to my side bar, and the only things I see is the scrolling arrow of the slide and the dots indicating how many pictures are sliding; the rest is blank- all white even though the dot underneath the slide shows the pictures are sliding.. I can’t see anything. What could be the problem here, please?

@brygiles Can you post a link to the page you are working on?

Hello I’m using the big news theme every thing working fine but my slide show not working can some one help me thanks.

Hello I’m using the big news theme every thing working fine but my slide show not working can some one help me thanks.
https://denniscreation.com/