Title: Adding Plugin to Template File
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding Plugin to Template File

 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aum001/)
 * (@aum001)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugin-to-template-file/)
 * I am wanting to use the plugin directly in a template file and have trouble getting
   it to work properly. I found the WP Codex page Function Reference/the widget 
   and used the example to create my own. But only one slide is displayed and the
   rest do not slide across. What must I do to get it to work?
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget)
 * the_widget( ‘Recent_Posts_Thumbnail_Slider_Widget’, ‘width=400’, ‘height=240’,‘
   categoryids=5’, ‘slider_auto_run=on’ );
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-post-thumbnail-slider-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-post-thumbnail-slider-widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aum001/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugin-to-template-file/)
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