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1. I installed and published the plugin but it doesn’t do anything. It displays correctly but when I click on navigation, nothing happens. What’s wrong?

There could be a couple of things going wrong. First, your WordPress theme might not have wp_footer() function present in footer.php file. That’s the first thing to check for. Next, depending on what other plugins you have installed and what JavaScript frameworks they load, you might get a conflict. A reasonable thing to do is to disable all plugins and enable them again one by one. Best thing to do is use the JavaScript console available in modern browsers and see if and what errors it shows. Also, ask the forums or submit a support ticket so we can investigate the issue.

2. After installing the plugin and publishing my first slider I noticed that the styling isn’t quite right. Is there a bug?

FeaturedArticles themes are styled individually by using a stylesheet that is unique for each slider theme. Depending on how your theme is styled and what other stylesheets your website might load, elements present into a slider might inherit styling from your other stylesheets. Best way to fight this is by using the console your browser of choice provides and see what styles affect certain elements from within the slider.

3. I just want to change some colors to make the slider more like my website. How do I do this?

It’s quite easy. Inside every theme folder FeaturedArticles comes with it you will find a folder called colors. Inside that folder, you’ll see a number of css files named after the color scheme they have. Just copy/paste one, rename it to your own color scheme (if let’s say you use a lot of green, name it green.css) and change the colors inside it to match your website. Once done, save the file, place it inside folder colors and go to WP admin slider editing mode. You’ll notice that inside the drop-down below the theme name your color scheme is present as an option. Choose it, hit Save and that’s it.

4. I use a slider that has full background but the image isn’t covering all background. Why is that?

Full background sliders use the image set on posts/pages or custom slides as background instead of thumbnail. When you create your slider, you should remember to also change the Image size to a size that matches your slider size. Also note that some images might be portrait, other landscape so if your slider has a landscape size, portrait images might show on just half the slider.
To solve this issue, always plan ahead a little and for best results use the custom image setting and add only images that match the slider you want to create.

5. I want to combine posts and pages into the same slider. Is that possible?

Yes, it is, but only in FeaturedArticles ^PRO. In slider settings, simply choose to display Featured Content and click Add Featured Content. It will open a modal window that contains a list of posts, pages and custom slides.

6. Where should I put the PHP function to display a slider?

If you want to place a slider manually by using the code provided by the plugin for each individual slider, you should edit one of your WordPress theme file and place it directly in there. Where exactly and what file you should edit depends totally on you.
If you’re not very sure what or how to do this, there are other options to display a slider in your WordPress website. You could use the shortcodes to display inside posts and/or pages, the widget or the automatic placement on pages, categories or homepage. You should be aware that automatic placement works by placing the slider above the content loop in your pages. If your pages have more than one loop (and they usually are) you should tweak the Display on Loop setting by increasing it with 1 until you see the slider displayed where you want.