How to create sliders in Drupal 7 using Views Slideshow?

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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How to fix Drupal issue: “This field has been disabled because you do not have sufficient permissions to edit it”.

How to fix Drupal issue: “This field has been disabled because you do not have sufficient permissions to edit it”.

In this post we'll see how to fix Drupal issue:

 “This field has been disabled because you do not have sufficient permissions to edit it”.

While I was trying to edit a content, I noticed that Drupal was not allowing me to edit the content saying  “This field has been disabled because you do not have sufficient permissions to edit it”.

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[Resolved] OSCLASS Posted Item Description Has Too Many Unwanted Blank Spaces

[Resolved] OSCLASS Posted Item Description Has Too Many Unwanted Blank Spaces

The OSCLASS item descriptions are appearing with wide extra blank spaces between paragraphs which makes the item look awkward. The spaces in between are too wide. It does not look good on the website. Most OSCLASS users are using "RichEdit" Plugin for text editing which appears in the item description text area. When pressing the ENTER button on the keyboard, it sets a new paragraph. And it looks okay when editing, but after the item is posted, there are too many blank spaces between the paragraph. Most of us would easily suspect the "RichEdit" plugin but "RichEdit" plugin is not the culprit surprisingly.

In this post, we will see how to resolve this issue with OSCLASS, a solution which I also found on OSCLASS forums posted by CJD and I thought I would share this.

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How to fix: WordPress not opening on localhost:8080 after port change from 80 to 8080 (HTTP 404 Not Found error)

How to fix: WordPress not opening on localhost:8080 after port change from 80 to 8080 (HTTP 404 Not Found error)

Opening a WordPress site after Apache port change returns HTTP 404 error (Not Found). This is a common issue with  WordPress users who have installed WordPress on local machine, then had to change the Apache HTTP port since other programs took over the HTTP port 80.

Here is a scenario for the issue:

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

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?

Prerequisites:

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