Thank you for getting back to me. This means a lot to me because no one has gotten back to me about anything.
My pleasure. ??
I’m going to address your questions in reverse:
3. Once I activated the plugin, I went to the “Sliders” navigation on the left side after “Posts” and clicked on “New Sliders.” I added the sliders individually and placed them in a “Slider Group”. One thing I noticed when I went to “new slider” is that the format looks similar to a posts but there was no “featured image” option on the right side.
Yes, each individual slide does look like a post and contains a title, text area (in which you can place links, text, images, etc.), and also a featured image.
The Featured Image meta box should appear underneath the Slider Groups box on the right column when you’re looking at an individual slide. If you don’t see the Featured Image meta box, click the Screen Options tab in the upper right and make sure its box is checked.
Should I add the slide images on the regular posts and set them as featured image?
The image for each slide should be uploaded using the WP Media Uploader and set as the Featured Image for that slide.
Other tips:
- Make sure to assign each slide an order. 1, 2, 3 . . .
- If you’ve created a slide group (looks like you have), make sure each slide in your series is assigned to that group
2. In the “home” page, I used this code below
[ic_do_slider group=”home-2″]
That should work, all other things being set correctly.
1. I placed this code below in my body. I don’t know if necessary because the problem is the same with/without that code.
<?php if(function_exists(‘ic_do_slider’)){ ic_do_slider(); } ?>
That PHP function doesn’t look right to me; not sure if markup was changed, but if you’re inserting the slider in a template file (directly in your theme) instead of in the WP editor, and you’re using the shortcode you mentioned in #2 above, I’d use:
<?php echo do_shortcode("[ic_do_slider quantity='3' thumb_size='medium' group='home-2']"); ?>
Or, to check if the function exists, you should be able to use:
<?php if(function_exists('ic_do_slider')){
echo do_shortcode("[ic_do_slider quantity='3' thumb_size='medium' group='home-2']");
} ?>
I hope that helps! ??
Eric
