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I can understand being frustrated when not getting something to work, but I am afraid your problem right now has nothing to do with weaver.
If your slideshow was created properly, just putting the Slideshow shortcode inside the content box of a simple page would display it. If that does not work, then something is wrong with the way the sliedeshow is created or the plugin install, but weaver has nothing to do with it.
So the focus right now should just be to succeed in defining a slideshow using the plugin and inserting it in the easiest content area which is the content of a page. This ensures that only meteor slides is in question. Once you get that working then we know you have a valid and working slideshow and the rest will be easy.
If you canot succeed to create a working slideshow in the basic content area of a page following the plugin directions, may be @gillian or @robfoster who are both sucessfull users of this plugin can walk you though the creation steps to see where you may have gone wrong.
Well I decided to give it a shot, and here the step by step of me creating my first meteorslides Slideshow in Weaver.
Created 3 pictures (image1, image2, image3) same sizes in my case 250 x 187
Appearance > Plugin > Add New > Meteor Slides, installed and activated Meteor Slides 1.5
Went to Slides > Add New
Title put in slide1
Clicked Set featured image > Selected file image1 on computer > Clicked Use as featured Image (not insert in post)
At the bottom of the Slideshows Area (bottom right side of the page) Clicked add new Slideshow > Entered the name slideshow1> Clicked Add New Slideshow , the slideshow1 appears in the list and its checkbox is ticked
Hit Publish
Clicked Add New at the top of the page> Title put in slide2
Clicked Set featured image > Selected image2 file on computer > Clicked Use as featured Image (not insert in post)
In Slideshows Box on the right, ticked the slideshow1 box
Clicked Publish
Clicked Add New at the top of the page> Title put in slide3
Clicked Set featured image > Selected image3 file on computer > Clicked Use as featured Image (not insert in post)
In Slideshows Box on the right, ticked the slideshow1 box
Clicked Publish
Went to Slides > Settings On the left
put 3 in slideshow quantity
put 187 in slide height (the height of my images)
put 250 in slide width (the width of my images)
Put 1 in transition speed
Put 2 in slide duration.
Went to Pages > Add New > in the editor box typed
[meteor_slideshow slideshow="slideshow1"]
Published the page and you can look at it here
Link removed no longer valid
So it looks to me like you either missed a critical step, or something is wrong with your installation.
if you cannot figure out the step you may have missed, may be delete your slides and slideshow, unsinstall meteor slides. and restart from scratch following the above steps.
If it still does not work, I would look into deactivating other plugins to see if you have some incompatibility at play
I used regular jpeg files, jus made sure they were all the same size (although meteor slides does not require it), and noted their size so I could put it in the Slides Settings.
Apparently you do not need <?php if ( function_exists( 'meteor_slideshow' ) ) { meteor_slideshow(); } ?> anywhere. You only need to insert the shortcode with the name of the slideshow you created Like
[meteor_slideshow slideshow="slideshow1"]
If you get your slideshow working in a simple page, come back with where you want to put it in the page, if you want it on all pages or a specific one, and we can help explain where the shortcode should go.
I have not used that mix of plugins so I cannot know of any incompatibility, compatibility issues can only be tested by either deactivating plugins one by one and testing in between, or deactivating all at once, and if it works, re activating one by one testing in between.
I know you want to blame someone for your frustration, but if you have something corrupting your installation and not allowing the plugin to work dumping weaver may not solve anything for you.
As Joy says, your slideshow is in the page just not running. I would make the quick test of desactivating all plugins except meteor slides and see if it changes things.
Now if you do not like Weaver's functionnality as a theme it is a different issue and feel free to explore other ones.
Thanks for adding your experience to this thread.
As for your specific issue, The first thing to test would be to put the slideshowm shortcode of a working slideshow in a simple test page, and give us the link to it if it does not work.
But please open a New thread so we can work with you on it separately from this one, and so that you can accept answer. We will be happy to help in your new thread.
