In this video, we'll create a view with both a page and a block display of our featured content

Manage display of teaser

This will be used for our full page display.

  • Click the "Manage Display" tab
  • Select the "Teaser" sub-tab
  • Move the "Featured Content Image" field above the "Body" field.
    • Label: Hidden
    • Image style: featured_content
    • (optional) Link image to: Content

Create the view

  • Go to "Structure => Views => Add new view" (admin/structure/views/add)
  • View name: Featured Content
  • Show: Content
    • of type: Featured Content
    • sorted by: Newest first

Page

  • [x] Create a page
  • Page title: Featured Content
  • Path: featured-content
  • Display format: Slideshow
    • of: teasers
    • without links
    • without comments
  • Items to display: 10
  • [x] Use a pager
  • (optional) [x} Create a menu link
    • Menu: Main menu
    • Link text: Featured Content

Block

  • [x] Create a block
  • Block Title: Featured Content
  • Display format: Slideshow
    • of: fields
  • Items per page: 5
  • [x] Use a pager (This is not actually the pager we want for our slideshow, but it can be easily used by mistake, so I'm going to show you the difference between this pager, and the slideshow pager.)
  • (Continue and edit)
  • (Save)

Let's create some content before we get into the slideshow settings so that we can see the settings in action.

Create Content

  • Go to "Content => Add content => Featured Content" (node/add/featured-content)
  • (I'm going to use the Devel module to generate 5 pieces of Featured Content)
  • (I need to demote all content from the front page. Go to "Content" (admin/content), select all, choose "Demote selected content from front page", click "Update".)