Slideshow on posts page

  • Resolved broadlighter

    (@broadlighter)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    I’ve been trying to display a slideshow on my posts page and have not found a way to make this work. I want to make my posts page the home page, but display a slide show of my client’s art above the most recent posts.

    I first tried to set a page as my posts page and insert the slideshow’s shortcode in the body section. That didn’t work,

    Then I tried putting the shortcode in a widget in one of the top widget areas. I set the widget to only display on that page. When I view the page, all it displays is the text, “!slideshow_deploy!”.

    Any suggestions or plugins, I should try?

    Thanks,

    Broadlighter

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  • Thread Starter broadlighter

    (@broadlighter)

    Just tried another solution – put a posts display shortcode on the home page below the slideshow shortcode. The result was the same. I get the text: “!slideshow_deploy!” where the slide show should appear and the post displays.

    There seems to be a compatibility issue with putting slide shows and posts on the same page, although I have seen WordPress sites with slideshows, carousels and posts on the same front page.

    Can anyone explain why this is?

    Thanks,

    BL

    Thread Starter broadlighter

    (@broadlighter)

    Solved my problem. I’ve been using the plugin, Slideshow v2.2.11 by Stefan Boonstra. In the Slideshow Dashboard module, there’s a setting under Miscellaneous Settings: “Avoid content filter (disable if ‘!slideshow_deploy!’ is shown).” The default is set to ‘Yes,’ but for this purpose it should be set to ‘No.’

    Then you put the slideshow into a widget in a top widget area. Slideshow has its own widget, so just select the particular slideshow for that widget, then set the Front page to posts.

    It will work.

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