[Plugin: Mini Loops] Miniloops conflicts with slider in elegant theme

I have used miniloops with great success on other websites but I am now running it on a website that is having serious problems with it. The first and most serious problem involves the featured slider that scrolls on the home page. When ML is activated, the slider begins featuring all “posts” in addition to the “pages” selected in the theme’s settings. I only want to feature these specific pages and NOT any posts. These are selected in the theme’s settings.

The other problem with this plugin on this site is the number of posts cannot be adjusted. I tried changing the number of posts in the plugin defaults as well as in the page I am calling them in with no affect on the output. Each time miniloops is called it returns the same number of posts (either 5 or 6).

My primary problem is with the slider. I want to continue using miniloops without having all my non-featured posts showing up in the slider.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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