workaround for oik-nivo-slider v1.2/v1.3 not working for child pages category_name queries

In version 1.2 of oik-nivo-slider I inadvertently introduced a bug which prevents the slideshow from working as expected for anything other than when displaying the image attachments to a post/page. This bug  is also found in version 1.3. The problem could be seen on the Nivo theme=pascal page. This page is supposed to show 4 different ways of displaying links to posts of a particular category:

1. nivo slider using [nivo]
2. simple list using [bw_posts]
3. image and excerpt using [bw_pages]
4. images only using [bw_thumbs]

Workaround

There is a workaround to this problem… I have already applied it to the Nivo theme=pascal page. It requires you to add two additional parameters post_mime_type=" "  – override the incorrect default setting of “image” – which is used for post_type=”attachments”. Note: the space between the quotes is important thumbnail="large" – to set the size of the image.

Fix for version 1.4

There will be a fix for this problem in version 1.4. In the mean time, please use the workaround above.