Hi ThemeDutch and Whitt Madden
Is there an interim solution for this issue as it is critical for my site that I can isolate individual post categories and only show selected categories in the post carousel rather than all of them. I looked at your site Whitt and from what i can see you have mananged to get the men’s ministry page to only show men’s posts. Did you find a solution or what please?

If we are reliant on the updated MikMag when will this be available please?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Gailstorm

Hi Theme Dutch and Whitt Madden

Thanks Whitt for your response to my earlier query re this issue. I understand you have had to change theme in order to display only the category you require rather than all categories in the carousel.

This is not possible for me - my site is live and I am committed to using MikMag.

Theme Dutch is there any way i can hack the code to display ONLY the category I select in the carousel please. I am happy to go under the covers and change whatever is required as I cannot wait any longer for the new 3.5 version for this to be fixed.

Thanks and regards.
Gailstorm

Oh I forgot to mention, I’m using WordPress 3.4.2 (I also had to downgrade my WordPress for compatibility with this theme)

I also asked this question over on another thread where I was having a different problem in the hope i could get both questions answered at the same time. Here’s Kevin’s response on the other thread:

“I’m afraid that code-based support requests exceed what we can offer as free support. We’ve also been doing quite some recoding on the mikmag theme as well as its framework so getting back to that exact problem would be rather difficult at this point.”

So that response now begs another question from me…

If i pay for support will you provide me with the code I need to hack this myself - or not - as clearly there would be no point in paying for support if I am going to get the same answer - no you cannot help me and I should simply to wait for the update.

If on the other hand paying for one quarter of support is likely to elicit support to enable me to get this fixed quickly, I would gladly pay it.

Last comment from me today is of course - when is the update coming please?

Regards

Gailstorm

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by  gail kingswell trueman.

Dear Kevin,

This is the shortcode appearing on my home page, calling the thumbnail slider (and posts from the category “bars_slider”):

[thumbnailslider category="bars_slider" number="24" background="#CCC" textcolor="#000" words="21"]

Is there a snippet of code that could be added here to EXCLUDE certain categories? Although this should be calling only posts from the bars_slider category, it’s displaying ALL categories. My sidebar also disregards the category distinction and simply shows everything.

Does anyone know? Thank you! (I’m using WordPress 3.4.2)

I would remind you that on Themeforest your demo site thumbnail slider shortcode page says quite clearly, that posts from a particular category can be shown in the slider - which is one of the reasons I purchased the theme. Here is the exact wording :

Thumbnail Slider
You are here: Home \ Features \ Thumbnail Slider
Want a slider with the latest posts from a particular category with a thumbnail? This shortcode is right for you. In addition, you can limit the number of posts and the number of words. You can select the background and text color too!

Please can you confirm that this issue is being addressed in the forthcoming update as this functionality is central to my use of the theme.

Thanks and regards
Gailstorm