By Nancy Kaps on

Hello,

I am new to Drupal. I am looking into having a slideshow on the front page of our Web site. I have looked into using Flexslider for the module to make it happen.

I went through the steps to add Flexslider to my site and I am having so many issues. I do see Flexslider under the Modules so that is progress! However, I do not see it anywhere on my site. I placed the code in the page--front.tpl.php page. This is so frustrating. Also, in the code, it has such code:

<img src="slide1.jpg" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="slide2.jpg" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="slide3.jpg" />

Now, instead of adding it to the page, is there anyway, I can create a content type and then the slideshow will update accordingly? In the future, I would like staff to update the images on the slideshow since we have programs every day for the public. I cannot constantly add programs because that will slow down my workflow. If there is an way to do this (make a slideshow content type) that will allow staff to easily update the front slideshow that would be great.

Thanks in advance.
Please help! I am a rookie.

-Nancy

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

If you are using one of the Flexslider modules there seems to be documentation for that (From a quick read you may need both the Flex Slider and FlexSlider Views Slideshow modules)

pintarprogramming’s picture

pintarprogramming commented

I have not used Flexslider, but I would imagine you need to enable Flexslider Example block or flexslider view block in your admin block page to desired region.

While you do this you have to make sure you clear cache in admin configuration page. Otherwise you may not see changes.

You can also make slideshow with Views module alone. But it might require more work. This way you could create new content type slideshow with image field. Then all you have to do is create a block or page view and display that view on your page. After that is just a question of HTML/CSS/JS editing.