Images not in slideshow

I could reproduce your problems on your website, but not on my test site…
What I could find out so far is that the slideshow plugin could not find any elements on the front page and therefore aborted. What is different between the frontpage and the other pages? I see you also have a slideshow on the frontpage.

What I need from you is what theme you are using and please also post a list of plugins.

Good new, I could find the issues, which were both Theme specific, and implement a fix in version 2.3.9. As far as I could find out you use the Esteem Theme by ThemeGrill?

2) The second issue with the bracket in front of the slide is fixed.
1) The issue with the slideshow not working on the frontpage is because the theme slider uses the jQuery Cycle Plugin, which is not compatible with the jQuery Cycle2 Plugin, which I use. I could, however, implement a hack to replace their slider with a widget where you can add a fancy slideshow.

I added an option to replace the theme-internal slider in the same position where you could activate the slider. This will remove the conflicting javascript library and create a new sidebar. There you can simply add a slideshow widget. You have multiple options to use a slide sources.

1) Images
2) Posts from certain category or latest posts
3) Pages
3) Links

As overlays you can set title and description, I also included an Esteem overlay style, which also uses the theme primary color option for the title background.

For image slideshows the caption is used as title and the description as description. For posts/pages either the title and an excerpt are used as title and description, or you can set specific title/description using post meta boxes.

Thanks for your prompt reply and quick fixes, Kolja. Wonderful, the bracket is gone.

About the other problem, good to know what caused the problem. You added an option to replace the internal slider of theme. Where did you add this option? How do I turn it on?

The situation is definitely improved on the homepage since the images are no longer shown in a long list. There is now one place that shows three images but no slide show.

Thanks again for your help!

Go to Appearance -> Customize. There should be a menu item Slider with submenu Activate Slider. There should be two options “Check to activate slider.” and “Check to use Fancy Slideshows”. Check both options.

This will remove the theme default slider, but add a sidebar called “Frontpage Slider”, where you can add a slideshow widget.

Before you do that, go to your media management. There will be a submenu Gallery where you can add as many galleries you want. Basically, they are categories for media files (So far only images are supported for slideshows).
You can then add the images you want to appear in a slideshow into a gallery. In your case you also need to add the image caption to be your current slide title (in your green box) and image description to be your current subtitle (in your white box).

Then simply add the slideshow widget to the Frontpage Slider sidebar and choose your image gallery as slide source. As slide overlay selet “Title & Description”. In addition you need to select as overlay style “Esteem”, which I added to reflect your current slide overlay. The other settings are up to you.

The slide images are automatically cropped to the slideshow container dimensions you choose.

Kolja, thanks for your help. I checked Customizer and found the option “Check to activate slider”, but didn’t find the option “Check to use Fancy Slideshows”. Any thoughts? I tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin, but no luck so far.

Your other instructions are clear and straightforward. Thanks!

Maybe I had a different theme. Please put the following code in some file, e.g. functions.php of your theme:

$theme = wp_get_theme();
echo $theme->name;

and post the output. I used the theme name to decide whether to load the theme-specific functions.

Output: TV Sleen 2015.
This is the name of a child theme linked to Esteem.

That explains it ??
In 2.4.1 I added a check for child theme and then determine to load the files depending on the parent theme so it should work

It works! Cool. Great plugin.
Thank you for your persistency and prompt replies.

Awesome ??