Displaying content with views

Prior to Drupal 8, you would have to download a variety of contrib to use view; however, views is now in Drupal core!

Now that we already have the power of views within, let's go create a view.

If we now go to Structure | Views, we will see a page listing content already as per Fig 1.20. These are our default views that are part of Drupal core; we can modify them as much as we like. Now, let's create our very first view. For people new to Drupal, views can be very scary and confusing. We won't be afraid, so let's create our Related news view.

At the top of the page, you will see + Add view; by clicking on this, it will in fact allow us to create a new view. So, let's go ahead and do that now. We can see various fields on this page, but don't worry, we will go through each field now:

• View name: User-friendly name for our view. Drupal will create a machine name from this, which allows us to access when we try to alter it with code.
• Description: This description will appear on the Views admin page; it is more of a helper to other developers to explain what the view does.
• View settings:
  • Show: We can select what type of entity we want to show, depending on which we will change the options next to this field.
• Tagged with: This allows us to filter by tags on the Views admin page.
• Sorted by: We can order our content in views.
• Page settings: If we want to create our view with a page first, we can do that, and we can also add some basic settings for the page; click on the Create a page checkbox, and you will see a whole bunch of fields to enter.
• Create a block: We can add blocks to content, and views allows us to create these to display our content.