New Version of Custom Node Template (Free Drupal Module) Released

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By admin - Posted on 20 January 2010

Version 1.4 of the Custom Node Template module for Drupal provides several new features including thumbnails.

The new features in version 1.4 of the Custom Node Template module for Drupal includes support for thumbnails, CCK, and Vertical Tabs.

Now, instead of just having a list of node templates displayed in the settings when creating (or editing) a page on your Drupal site, you have the option to show thumbnails as well. For those who are more graphically oriented, you can create thumbnails in the form of a PNG image to represent a node template. Simply add these to your Drupal theme (main folder). In order to have a thumbnail image displayed next to the template name, you only need to give the image the same name as the template (minus the extension).

More details on how to do this and information on other aspects of using the Custom Node Template module is available in several places. If you have enabled the core Drupal help module, you will find a page for the Custom Node Template module listed in the Help section. Additional information is also available on the Custom Node Template Project Page on Drupal.org and the Custom Node Template Handbook Page on Drupal.org. Additionally, we are in the process of adding some information for the Custom Node Template module on WebNewCastle.com to supplement information contained elsewhere. We'll try to have some demos and examples of how to use the module added soon.

If you are using CCK for Drupal, you will now find that the Node Template Settings fieldset can be moved and the Manage Fields page for each content type. Additionally, support has been added for the Vertical Tabs module. A German translation has also been added.

We would like to give a quick "shout out" to Tekl on Drupal.org for contributing the German translation and other suggestions and code. A significant part of the coding for this new version was contributed by Tekl.

The Custom Node Template module makes it simple to take control of the display of specific Drupal pages by allowing you to select a specific node template to be used on a node-by-node (page-by-page) basis.

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