Title: Frontpage-Slideshow displaying wrong category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Frontpage-Slideshow displaying wrong category

 *  [puzzled94](https://wordpress.org/support/users/puzzled94/)
 * (@puzzled94)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frontpage-slideshow-displaying-wrong-category/)
 * Hi, I’m running a large site with lots of categories.
 * In the preview mode for Frontpage-Slideshow I see the correct category (ie. the
   one I’ve selected) but when the site is live the slides are taken from the most
   recent posts which is not what I need. Only one category is selected.
 * Also, my version of Frontpage-Slideshow (Unique ID 10412) no longer show the 
   colours in the ‘About Colors and Opacities’ section. Even if I reset the plugin
   the colours do not appear, only their labels. Weird but not as frustrating as
   the category issue.
 * This could be a great plugin but there are lots of quirky behaviours (the preview
   in particular seems very temperamental)
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [evandiaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evandiaz/)
 * (@evandiaz)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frontpage-slideshow-displaying-wrong-category/#post-1658890)
 * For the categories problem, I was having the same issue, but if you just copy
   and paste the entire short code for example:
    `[FrontpageSlideshow fs_cats=3 
   fs_slides=5 fs_main_width=605px fs_main_height=200px fs_slide_width=376px fs_buttons_width
   =224px fs_button_normal_color=#3c3c3c fs_button_hover_color=#515151 fs_button_current_color
   =#757575 fs_ul_color=#515151 fs_main_color=#515151 fs_rounded=0 fs_template=default]`
 * rather than the simple short code `[FrontpageSlideshow]`
 * it’ll work just fine 😀
 *  [Phi Web Studio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlosflores/)
 * (@carlosflores)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frontpage-slideshow-displaying-wrong-category/#post-1658910)
 * Yea, that worked for me.
 * But I inserted:
    [FrontpageSlideshow fs_cats=3 fs_slides=5]
 * Thant way all my configuration I made in the back-end of wordpress still rendered.
 *  [brendan123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brendan123/)
 * (@brendan123)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frontpage-slideshow-displaying-wrong-category/#post-1658912)
 * I had the same problem and this fixed it. This bug might be the reason some people
   are saying that “the images will not display.” If the slider is pulling from 
   the wrong category or post, and the post has no images, then it seems like a 
   display/jquery/browser problem but it is really just a mixed up category problem.
 *  [omgraphics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omgraphics/)
 * (@omgraphics)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frontpage-slideshow-displaying-wrong-category/#post-1658940)
 * Just uploaded this onto another new site and it worked fine until about 5 hours
   into setting up all of the pages. It then began acting as if there was an extra
   blank slide (i.e., it would pause the same amount of time as an actual slide 
   before playing the rest of the slides and then do the same as it looped through).
 * Found evandiaz and carlosflores comments and tried hardwiring that into my header.
   php file (where I have the code posted for the slideshow) and it worked immediately.
   Thanks for the suggestions (I wouldn’t have thought about dealing with the shortcode
   in a PHP file…)
 * Something like this:
 * <?php
    // added by <yourname> in order to add the slideshow using the frontpage-
   slideshow plugin echo do_shortcode(‘[FrontpageSlideshow fs_cats=10 fs_slides=
   10]’); ?>

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 * Last reply from: [omgraphics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omgraphics/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frontpage-slideshow-displaying-wrong-category/#post-1658940)
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