Featured Content Slider now has a new release 7.x-1.1
What is Featured Content Slider?
Featured Content Slider is a module to feature latest nodes in a block that displays as a slideshow. This makes a featured slideshow out of node content displayed in the block.
Features
1. Improved Code
2. Nice, configurable, themable slider.
3. You can control options like fade, auto-rotate, speed etc.
4. Can be associated with multiple content types (upto 3).
5. Comes configured with multiple blocks (upto 3)
6. New release has a contrib module that supports preconfigured images using imagecache, themeing, automatically creates a content type when the module is installed
and also supports embedded videos. It also automaitcally creates thumbnails for embdeded videos. It displays the slider like this one: http://www.cirm.ca.gov/ out of the box when installed. Note:We have not tested contrib custom slider working together with the main slider yet.
Currently only works on Field API fields on fieldable entities implementing core style text processing. The good thing is that is most things in core and contrib.
The content distribution module is for managing distribution of content from a single central website to one or many remote websites via web services.
A typical set-up includes one single 'content distributing' Drupal instance with 1-many 'content receiving' Drupal instances.
This module ties in with the nodequeue module to allowing 'queueing' of content on the content distribution instance. The remote sites may then subscribe to any nodequeues available on the distributing site and receive content which is added to these queues over web services.
Status
6.x-1.3 should work with Services 6.x-0.15. This branch is no longer being actively developed; and although bugfixes from the new branch are being backported, no maintainers are currently using this release. Test the release and report your findings, but not on a live site!