having trouble implementing the wordpress tabs slides plugin

I am having trouble implementing the wordpress tabs slides plugin. I have contacted the developed of the plugin and he is not able to help me, after many tries. I think its something to do with all the machinations I have performed on my wordpress while trying to figure out how to do things. The problem: I want to put the tabslide widget in the body of a post on one page of my website. When I add the shortcode to the post, rather than showing tabs, the center column and the right column are blank.