Views
Once you have started to create content, it won't be very long before you find yourself in a situation where you need to create lists of it, as follows:
A list of article titles with each title linked to the article detail
A list of article "teasers" (shortened versions) linked to the full detail
A list of articles associated with a particular taxonomy term
The core module Views
is a powerful module that enables you to do all this and much more.
Views is a powerful and flexible query-building and content-display tool that can be used to build complex content listing pages to present your content the way you want.
You can specify the number of items to display in a list and publish your view to a specific URL (a page) or as a block to be included on one or more pages.
There are a number of built-in views included in the standard profile, which we will explore later. For example, Drupal enables you to quickly and easily mark content to be "Promoted to the front page" and the following screenshot...