views
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Support from 2025 onwards
The D7 Security group have adopted Views, please follow them for future fixes and improvements.
You need Views if
- You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it differently.
- You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.
- You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain type.
- You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display articles the way you like.
- You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of some particular type.
- You want to provide 'unread forum posts'.
- You want a monthly archive similar to the typical Movable Type/Wordpress archives that displays a link to the in the form of "Month, YYYY (X)" where X is the number of posts that month, and displays them in a block. The links lead to a simple list of posts for that month.
Views can do a lot more than that, but those are some of the obvious uses of Views.
Views for Drupal 8
Views is in Drupal 8 core! Please open all Views-related issues for your D8 sites in the Drupal core issue queue.
Views for Drupal 6
Views on Drupal 6 is supported by the D6 LTS vendors and not directly supported by the module's maintainers.
Dependencies
The Drupal 7 version of Views requires the Chaos Tool Suite also known as CTools.
Views documentation
- Views 3 API (Generated from Views 3 source. Only useful to developers.)
- Views 3 documentation hasn't been updated completely yet. Items of note are:
The Views Book
- "Drupal's Building Blocks" is available and focuses on site building with Views on Drupal 7. Buy it on Amazon.com.
Past sponsors
- Mediacurrent
- iO1 Limited