Drupal 7 Cookbook

Creating a simple slideshow carousel

In this chapter, we will be using a set of contributed modules to create a simple slideshow content type.

Getting ready

For this recipe you will need to install and enable the most recent recommended releases of the following modules:

• http://drupal.org/project/field_slideshow
• http://drupal.org/project/jcarousel
• http://drupal.org/project/libraries

You will need FTP access to your site for installing the jQuery cycle plugin.

How to do it...

First we will install the jQuery cycle plugin, then we will create a new content type for the slideshow, and finally we will configure the display of the slideshow and add some test ...