Listing content

Views does one thing, and it does it well--listing content. The power behind the Views module is the amount of configurable power it gives the end user to display content in various forms.

This recipe will cover creating a content listing and linking it in the main menu. We will use the Article content type provided by the standard installation and make an article's landing page.

Getting ready

The Views UI module must be installed to manipulate Views from the user interface. By default, this is enabled with the standard installation profile.

How to do it...

Let's list the Views listing content:

1. Go to Structure and then Views, as shown in the following screenshot; this will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views that have been created:

2. Click on Add view to create a new view.
3. The first step is to provide the View name of articles, which will serve as the administrative and (by default) displayed title.
4. Next, we will modify the VIEW SETTINGS. We want to display Content...