Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-970089-20160808234045/@comment-3474542-20160809043816

The gallery tag doesn't work well with templates or variables, so you'll need to use a parser function to help it out (Help:Galleries,_Slideshows,_and_Sliders/wikitext).

Try using

In YOURTEMPLATE1, pass the image and text for the "permanent" images. It should basically look like the innards of a regular gallery.

Example: Apple.jpg|Apple Orange.jpg|Orange Banana.jpg|Banana

In YOURTEMPLATE2, you will parse the image and text for the Featured Page. If you want to automatically choose a different template every day, you would use something like:

You will still have to create 366 different templates, but you would only have to edit whichever one was your current "day".

If you don't want to be that ambitious, you could use:

}}
 * hideaddbutton="true"
 * type = "slider"

This option would call a template named FA with the current week number (e.g. - "Template:FA" ), which would automatically change every week. You would only need to make 52 FA templates for this option.

You can find more magic words at [MediaWiki:Magic words]... but be careful, not all of them are compatible with Wikia.

edit: added references & fixed coding (I hate counting brackets!)