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Actually I tried out another widget but it was for Recent posts and used it’s short code. It didn’t break the slider, but fit nicely inside instead. So it is how I’ve written my function. Unfortunately, I can’t find a good plugin that will work to get random posts from multiple post types so I was forced to make my own query instead.

I’ll put it as resolved for now since it doesn’t have to do with the slider.

If you think of anything I can do to help get this shortcode/function/query to show up in the slider, I would definitely appreciate any advice! Thanks

Edit: Looks like I managed to resolve it. Sorry thanks

Still searching for an answer if anyone wants to take a stab.

I figured out how to do it without any plugins required. Added this in place of a left sidebar in my page template. It was important to use the proper wrappers as if it was a sidebar itself.

get_header(); ?>

<div class="cryptid-sidebar-left">
<ul class="cryptid-sidebar-widgets-left">
    <?php
    $meta = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), "cryptid_post_class", true);
    if( !empty($meta) ):
    ?>
    <li>
        <?php echo $meta; ?>
    </li>
    <?php
    endif;
    ?>
</ul>
</div>

Used custom fields Key: cryptid_post_class and Value: The text data and html I was using.

WordPress Support was not really helpful so I took it to Stack Exchange instead and the following link is a VERY detailed post on the problem and how it was solved in several ways.

Hopefully it’ll be useful to others in the future.

Hey there gicolek!

I was able to mess with the .acf-rpw-before-whole div to close up the white space I was getting on the top and bottom.

Here’s what it looks like now: link

Since I only wanted 1 post to show per category, I repeated the widget twice so I could select the category and limit the post number to 1. It’s looking pretty good!

I ended up adding {margin-left:-10%} to the css class to modify the indentation of the post title link.

Looks like I solved it myself after I gave it some more thought.

Thanks for your quick response anyways! Love the widget!

Heyo! No problem.

Here is an expanded screenshot. The Recent Posts area is where your widget is in action. Here