Using Views Slideshow module

Views slideshow module is a great module which allows you to create slideshows from a views results. It makes it very easy to create a block that rotates the latest blog posts for example.

Getting started

To install the module just download it and copy it into your modules folder. Once copied go to admin/build/modules and enable Views Slideshow, Views Slideshow: SingleFrame and Views Slideshow: ThumbnailHover.

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In this quick how to I’ll only show you how to setup a slideshow using the SingleFrame mode.

To get started create a simple block view which displays the story title and body (set a max character limit to only display a teaser) field.

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To give it some slideshow magic change the style to Slideshow and click on Update.

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After clicking Update you’ll get the style options. Here you have the ability to configure the slideshow to a certain point.

First leave the Slideshow mode on SingleFrame.

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By updating the form with the standard configuration you do get a simple slideshow but there are a few things you can customise like the controls, pager and effect type.

Just give it a go and see what type of slideshow you can come up with.

As always with Drupal there are 10 ways of creating a slideshow, just search forslideshow using Drupal’s search to find other projects.