[Plugin: AnythingSlider for WordPress] show anything slides on a page without the slider?

Sounds like you want to add the shortcode into the post, but then also filter by category slug and only have the one slide in that category. You can either use display:none in css to hide the nav elements or turn them off in the plugin settings. I did a quick test (since I need the same thing) and it looks like it doesn’t autoplay/animate if there’s only a single slide picked up, which makes sense of course.

[anything_slides cat=home-page width=600 height=335]