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Contributed modules for Drupal 7

Views Slideshow

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Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View. Powered by jQuery, it is heavily customizable: you may choose slideshow settings for each View you create.

Potential uses

  1. News item slideshow (such as the title, image, and teaser of the last five news articles).
  2. Show the last x number of y submitted (images, videos, blog entries, forum posts, comments, testimonials, etc.).
  3. Hottest new products for any e-commerce Drupal site.
  4. Combine video and images in one slideshow
  5. Rotate links - contact, share , etc.
  6. Anything you can output as a view, you can turn into a slideshow.

Capabilities and limitations vary a bit depending on what slideshow implementation you use - Views Slideshow provides one: Views Slideshow Cycle. Read more in the following sections.

Installation & Requirements

Views Slideshow 3 for Drupal 7 introduced the Views Slideshow Cycle module as a default implementation that will work out of the box.

Creating a slideshow

Start with selecting and installing a slideshow module

Creating an image pager

This page describes the steps to use an image as the pager in Views Slideshow 3.x.

Developer Tutorials

These tutorials provide short instructions on how to do more advanced backend changes or additions to Views Slideshow

Examples / Starter Kit Module

Overview

Theming

These documentation pages provide instructions and example code for theming your slideshows

Related Content

Views Slideshow

Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View.

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Drupal 7

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