I have written about Mimbo Pro, a few posts ago and one of the cool features with Mimbo Pro, is the image carousel. The image carousel displays images, that are linked to your posts, like shown in the image below.

However, by default the carousel in Mimbo Pro, only select images from one category, only. In this post, I will show you how to make the carousel in Mimbo Pro, select images from all your categories!

Disclaimer: This tip is offered in good faith. No responsibility is accepted by the author for any loss or damage caused in any way to any person or equipment, as a direct or indirect consequence of use or misuse of the information contained in this post. The author strongly encourages you to make backups of your files, before you employ any of the information in this post.

This tip is for Mimbo Pro Version: 1.2

To make the image carousel pick images, from all your categories, all you need to do is to edit one line, in index.php (main index template). You can do it through the Theme Editor, inside WordPress or you can do it locally and then upload the new version of, index.php.

Here is a step by step instruction, for you.

First, you must know what internal id’s your categories have. It’s rather easy to find out.

• Go to the Manage tab and click on a category.
• Now, look in the address field, and you will see something similar to this,

http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=4

As you can see you have the category id, displayed at the end.
Now, write up all the Id’s, for the categories, that you would like the carousel, select images from.

When your done, it’s time to edit the index.php.

• Open up index.php
• Find this line of code. See the image below, for guidance.

query_posts('showposts=' . $bm_carouselCount . '&cat=' . $bm_carousel );