If you visit your site and find your slider or featured posts widget isn’t working, then check through each of these common problems; it’s highly likely one of these will be the cause:
1. Blog is set to Private
The slider uses the blog feed to display posts and when the blog is private, the feed is inactive. As soon as your blog is set to Public, the widget should start working. To check if your blog is Private, go to Settings > Basic and look for the “Blog Readers” setting in the “Permissions” section.
2. Feed problem
If the widget still doesn’t work, go to Settings > Other and make sure the “Allow Blog Feed” setting is set to Full. If it’s not set to Full, the widget can’t display posts.
3. Wrong label
If you want to display featured posts instead of recent posts, please double check that you added the same label that appears in your post. For example, if the label is written as “Fashion” in your post, but it has been added as “fashion” in the code, then the widget cannot find that category.
Finally, if none of the above solutions worked for you, please contact us on Etsy with your site address and we’ll try to see what’s the problem.