How to create sliders in Drupal 7 using Views Slideshow?

Sliders or Slideshows are dynamic elements usually displayed in home page of websites. Usually with a catchy background image and phrases, they grab attention. They are great additions to any websites to add more aesthetics to websites. Since they are dynamic, websites look more grand and alive. They can also be used to display important content and graphics to engage with visitors. And though sliders are not so good in terms of making websites easily accessible on mobiles over data network due to higher load times, it has still become a standard web design layout.

In this post we shall discuss how to create testimonial sliders in Drupal 7 using Views Slideshow. Though the usual sliders we see are catchy background images with catchy phrases, sliders are not only meant for images. They can be any thing, almost. We can also display text such as testimonials, images, quotes etc.

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Drupal: How To Set Different Front Page or Home Page For User Based on Different User Role?

There may be times when we may want to direct users based on their Drupal Roles to different Front Page. For instance, we want users with administrator and content admin roles to see a dashboard, and regular users with "Authenticated User" roles to another dashboard specially designed for those users. In such cases, we want to redirect users based on their roles to different dashboard.

In this post, we shall see how to set different Front Page for users based on their user roles. Page redirection can be easily achieved by using Rules. If you don't want to do it with rules, there are modules available for setting front page for different user roles. We shall be check out two methods to set front page for different user roles - by using Rules Module and another by using "Front Page Module" from Drupal Projects.

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How to install and uninstall a module in Drupal CMS?

Drupal Modules are great way to extend your Drupal website. A Drupal module is a collection of files containing some functionality and is written in PHP. It can be installed and uninstalled. In this post, we will see how to install Drupal modules the standard way and to uninstall Drupal Modules.

How to install modules in Drupal?
There are basically three common ways to install Drupal modules which is popular, besides using "drush". One can install Drupal Modules by either of the following ways:

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Drupal Commerce Tips: How to display Drupal Commerce products using views module?

Drupal Commerce is used to build eCommerce websites and applications of all sizes. Drupal Commerce is probably one of the most popular eCommerce module available for the Drupal CMS these days. In this post, we will see how to display Drupal Commerce products.

Drupal Commerce Tips: How to display Drupal Commerce products using views module?

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Drupal Commerce: How to add custom fields to collect extra information in a Drupal Commerce checkout process?

Drupal Commerce is used to build eCommerce websites and applications of all sizes. Drupal Commerce is probably one of the most popular eCommerce module available for the Drupal CMS these days. In this post, we will see how to add custom fields in a Drupal Commerce checkout process. The benefit is that it will allow us to collect extra information from customers pertaining to an order.

How to add custom fields to collect extra information in a Drupal Commerce checkout process? Let's discuss this step by step. This example is based on Drupal 7.

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