Slider- Can't see option to select slider category

Sparkling
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Hi there

I am using (and loving) the Sparkling theme. Only problem is there is no option for me to select the slider category - its just not visible. Can anyhelp help out or tell me where I am going wrong, I made no php or even css edits?

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Hi @jamesozzie,

I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

I have tested it on my test site and it’s working fine for me using latest version of Sparkling theme.

This can be due to plugin conflict on your site so please try temporary deactivating all plugins and see whether everything works fine and then enable the plugins one by one to see which plugin is conflicting if any.

Best Regards,
Movin

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No - it wasnt a plugin issue. I found out what the problem was - it won’t show you the option to select a category until you already have a post with a featured image. I tested it on a few local sites.

That’s something that should be in the user manual, as it only allows you to select from categorys that already have posts with featured images. Great theme eitherway

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The theme displays slider categories using the following code and there isn’t any condition to display categories only if you already have a post with a featured image.

global $options_categories;
$options_categories = array();
$options_categories_obj = get_categories();
foreach ($options_categories_obj as $category) {
        $options_categories[$category->cat_ID] = $category->cat_name;
}