Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-970089-20160808234045

Hi Folks,

I'm working on a redesign for fallout.wikia.com and I'm running into a brick wall trying to get the effect I want to work.

What I’m trying to do is have a slider of 4 images, but make the 4th image one that changes every day to highlight an article of the day. We currently have a “Featured Article” element on our front page this is hopefully going to replace (Featured Article currently changes every day).

I’ve tried to feed into the gallery image names by putting the slider into a (wikitext) template, and then trying to pass a variable, but that didn’t work out.

I’ve tried to feed in code by transcluding another page within the gallery tags, but that didn’t work either.

Is there any way to do this, short of having to update 365 different sliders if/when I want to replace one of the 3 "static” ones? 