Getting Error Message – "Wrong Slider" when importing the zipped file

Make sure that email addresses support [at] wowslider [dot] com and cs [at] apycom [dot] com are not in your ignore list. Also, you can try to add these addresses in your address book.

You can use WOWSlider as standard Javascript files.
To insert the WOWSlider into your page:

1) Create your slideshow using WOWSlider.
2) Publish it on a local drive in any test folder:

– open Gallery->Properties->Publish or click ‘Publish’ button on the main menu panel;
– select ‘Publish to folder’, click ‘Browse’ button and select any local folder
– click ‘Publish’ button

3) Open index.html file from the saved folder in any text editor (Notepad for example) or you can:
– open index.html page in any browser
– right click on the page
– select view source of the page.

You’ll find ‘engine’ and ‘data’ folders in this saved folder also.

4) Copy code for HEAD and BODY sections of WOWSlider and paste it in HTML tab in the place where you want to have a slider, for example:

...
<!-- Start WOWSlider.com HEAD section -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="engine1/style.css" media="screen" />
<style type="text/css">a#vlb{display:none}</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="engine1/jquery.js"></script>
<!-- End WOWSlider.com HEAD section -->
...
<!-- Start WOWSlider.com BODY section -->
...
<!-- End WOWSlider.com BODY section -->
...

5) Notice, you should copy ‘data’ folder with images and ‘engine’ folder with all files into the same folder with your own webpage.

6) Preview your website in the browser.

That’s all.

Hi Gen_A,

I had the same problem some weeks ago and I found out that the plugin was ok, but that the software distributed by WOW-slider.com was out of date. What I did do, I downloaded the latest version of the software (have a look at the e-mail when you purchased the software to get the latest “ful version”). Install that on your computer, open the Slideshow you have created before and “publish” that again. Upload that new zip file to your wordpress site. I was able to resolve the problem like that!

To start coding in your html code will maybe solve also, but that I guess is not the idea of a non-coding software 🙂

I hope this will work!

I have the newest version of wow-slider plugin and wordpress and I get that wrong slider error message… What’s the problem?

WordPress version is 3.4.2 and Wow-slider plugin: 2.6

I am using WordPress 3.7.1, Desktop version 4.8 and Plugin Version 4.0 and I am having the same problem. I just purchased the license and this is happening now. I tried to do what someone early suggested about opening the slider and then re-publishing but it did not work. Still getting the ‘wrong file’ message. Any ideas??