Draft slider preview not working properly

Hi @claraelise!

I am not exactly sure what you mean under draft slider. Do you have a page where this is visible? We only display published slides/sliders, otherwise it shouldn’t even show up on the frontend. But for the image based layers, so like the Image layer:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1833-image-layer
Image area layer:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1849-image-area-layer
we show a placeholder image by default, which can be changed.

Perhaps you mean that for the thumbnail you see this placeholder? In which case it will be related to this:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/2037-thumbnail-shows-different-image-from-the-slide

If neither of these would help, then please provide more information about the exact problem.

Hi!

Thanks for your answer. We use background image for landing page slider. It shows a slider with placeholder when we try to preview it as “unpublished” slider. If we publish de slider then the preview shows ok.

So just to be sure. Preview for unpublished sliders doesnt work it only shows a placeholder image?

Yes, that is correct. If you preview a slider with no published slides in it, there isn’t much to show, as there are no published slides, so we just use this placeholder. The preview just shows a display of what you would see on the frontend if you were to publish the slider on a page. So if you want to see a slide there, make sure that the given slide is published.