WordPress Update Broke Slider – Help!

Hello folks. I use Calypso theme. The built in slider on my site is not displaying the appropriate posts since the update. Here’s the site: https://www.fredtracy.com

It’s supposed to show a selection of posts from a category, which I define in the admin page. However, nothing I define is working – it just keeps showing the usual “recent posts,” which is useless since they’re already on the page!

Does anyone know of a hack to get around this? I tried manually editing the code for the slider itself, but that broke everything.

I believe this may be the issue. tab.php is the slider in Calypso. Here’s a line of code from it: “

$my_query = new WP_Query(‘category_name=’.$gldcat.’&showposts=’.$gldct.”);”

I want .$gldcat. to point to my “featured” post category like I’ve defined in the admin options.. but new wordpress broke it?

Any suggestions?