Drupal

Adding a Slideshow to Drupal

April 8, 2010 | Written by Steve Burge

This week's tutorial was requested by a student in our Drupal forum. They wanted to know how to add a slideshow to their Drupal site.

We recommend a module called Content Glider which allows you to show a slideshow in a block.

Installing Content Glider to Your Drupal Site

  • Step 1: Visit http://drupal.org/project/content_glider to download the latest version of "Content Glider".
  • Step 2: Extract the files into a folders on your desktop. The folder will be called "content_glider".
  • Step 3: Login to your site's files via FTP and navigate to /sites/all/. If there isn't a folder called /modules/ here, create one.
  • Step 4: Upload the "content_glider" folder to /sites/all/modules/
  • Step 5: Go to Administer >> Site building >> Modules and enable Content Glider.

Configuring Content Glider

Step 1: It's best to create a new content type for the slideshow, so we don't get mixed up with our other nodes.

  • Go to Administer >> Content Management >> Content Types
  • Click "Add Content Type" and create a type called "slideshow"

Step 2: Now we can go and configure Content Glider:

  • Go to Administer >> Site Configuration >> Content Glider
  • Put "slideshow" into the "Content type for Glider 1:" field.
  • Click "Save Configuration.
Step 3: Next, let's make Content Glider live on our site:
  • Go to Administer >> Site Building >> Blocks
  • Publish the "Content Slider 1" block onto your site.
Step 4: Finally we can create the content for the slideshow.
  • Go to Create Content >> Slideshow
  • Start adding the nodes that will appear in your slideshow ...


 

 


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# pranav 2010-09-30 05:15
Tutorial was very helpful.
But content slider has created some problems in my site
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# tchdoutch 2011-01-07 15:38
how can i get slideshows to appear on top off main page instead of showing at the bottom after other post?
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# stephanie derry 2011-10-18 01:29
hello,
As I have read the blog above, I was glad because the topic was great. It really indeed I learned a lot from it. Hope to read more likely this one.
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# stephanie derry 2011-10-18 01:29
hello,
As I have read the blog above, I was glad because the topic was great. It really indeed I learned a lot from it. Hope to read more likely this one.
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# Frank 2011-11-13 11:55
Thanks, I get it , but how could I show an image in the content? It always show the content body.
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# iowawebco 2011-11-15 00:49
Hi everyone,

Sorry for the delay in responding. Our apologies for the inconvenience, but if you're a student at OSTraining, could you copy and paste this into the support forum so one of our support techs can look into it for you? All you have to do is log in at www.ostraining.com and click on Support Forum in the main menu. Here's the direct link too: www.ostraining.com/support-forum

It's tough keeping track of all the blog comments as we have hundreds of blog posts so that's why we have a support forum available to our students to help organize things both for the students and ourselves.

Please see the support FAQ for more information:
http://www.ostraining.com/support-faq/

Thanks for understanding!

Kind regards,
Nick
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# karthik 2011-11-16 22:15
Nice one.

I need to make it keep rotation in a loop any suggestion?

karthik
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