When it comes to managing the look and feel of a content page, nothing can beat Display Suite. It's become an essential module for when you need to change the layout and fields on a node or any entity page.

Today I want to talk about a piece of functionality that you may not be aware of in Display Suite. It's the ability to switch the view mode will be used for an individual node.

Let me explain, when you go to a node page (node/1) the "Full content" view mode is displayed. But, you can only have a single version of this view mode for each content type.

Display Suite can be setup to allow authors to select a specific view mode on an individual node.

Instead of displaying "Full content", you could, on a select group of nodes use another view mode called "Feature landing page".

This functionality is not exclusive to Display Suite. You can do similar stuff using Panels or Panelizer.

In this tutorial, we'll create a custom view mode called "Full content feature" and we'll allow an editor to select which one will be used on individual nodes.