Okay, so it looks like the problem is that I can not place the shortcode in a text box. I moved it to a custom code block and that worked.
But
The slideshow looks awful! I mean the images for each post are down rendering to 300px, which is good, but you are only showing one at a time?
A proper slider would show 4-5 at a time across the row, and then slide the next set of 4-5 (or slide across moving the one to left off and bringing on a new one from the right or vis versa.
So, I won’t be using this at all. looks totally off balance.
But thanks anyway.
I am having SO much problems and frusrations getting your systems and shortcodes to sit nicely into anything other than the generic template you provide.
I tried Visual Composer, Site Origin, and Divi. Running into road blocks with each. Was hoping for this to be a 1-2 week project before launching, but now it looks like it may be a month and I may have to acquire some help from a coder.
Not what I was expecting to pay for, but hopefully I can make this work for us.
Thanks again for your quick responses. I am absolutely positive I will have more questions.