# Varbase Carousels

Provides the base implementation for the carousels in your website.

Admins will be able to create carousels on the spot and place it anywhere on the site.

## Varbase Carousels Module

{% hint style="info" %}
Varbase carousels features are bundled through the **Varbase Carousels** module.\
GitHub: <https://github.com/Vardot/varbase_carousels>\
Drupal.org: <https://www.drupal.org/project/varbase_carousels>

After building a project using the `varbase-project` template, you can see the code of the **Varbase Carousels Slider** module in:
{% endhint %}

```
project_directory
|-- docroot
    |-- modules
        |-- contrib
            |-- varbase_carousels
```

Brings in the following core and contributed modules to your site:

| Module                                                                | Purpose                                                                                                                                      |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <p><strong>Block</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p>         | Controls the visual building blocks a page is constructed with. Blocks are boxes of content rendered into an area, or region, of a web page. |
| <p><strong>Block Content</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p> | Allows the creation of custom blocks and block types.                                                                                        |
| <p><strong>Text</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p>          | Defines simple text field types.                                                                                                             |
| <p><strong>Field</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p>         | Field API to add fields to entities like nodes and users.                                                                                    |
| <p><strong>User</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p>          | Manages the user registration and login system.                                                                                              |
| <p><strong>Options</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p>       | Defines selection, check box and radio button widgets for text and numeric fields.                                                           |
| <p><strong>Link</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p>          | Provides a simple link field type.                                                                                                           |
| <p><strong>Filter</strong></p><p><em>(in Drupal core)</em></p>        | Filters content in preparation for display.                                                                                                  |
| [**Chaos Tools Blocks**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools)       | Provides improvements to blocks that will one day be added to Drupal core.                                                                   |
| [**Slick Carousel**](https://www.drupal.org/project/slick)            | Slick carousel, the last carousel you'll ever need.                                                                                          |

## Required Varbase Modules

This module needs the following Varbase modules in order to function.

### Varbase Media Module

Manages type of media contents and entity browsers in the site.

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MePkGsRz2V-jUTLLtNF" %}
[Varbase Media](/10.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/core-components/varbase-media.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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