Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 9 ■ Views
6. In the Filter Criteria section, leave the Content Publishing status and Content
Type criteria set as only showing published content (Yes) and only content that is
of type Article.
7. In the Sort Criteria section, click the Add button and search for Date. You’ll see
“Content: Post date” in the list of options. Check the box next to this field, change
the For option to “This block (override),” and click the “Apply (this display)”
button at the bottom of the form. On the next form that appears, select “Sort
descending,” as we want the most recent Articles to appear at the top of the list,
and the oldest articles at the bottom. Apply that change as well.
8. The last change we need to make is to limit the number of Articles that will
appear in the list to three. In the second column of configuration options, check
to make sure that the value for “Use pager” is set to “Display a specified number
of items | 3 items.” This was the value we specified when we initially set up the
view.
Click the Save button, and you’re now ready to place the block you just created on a page on your site.
To place the block created by your view on a page, navigate to the Structure page and click the “Block layout”
link. On the “Block layout” page, in the “Place blocks” column, you should see the View display that you just
created listed under the Lists (Views) section (see Figure 9-5).
Figure 9-5. The List (Views) blocks
Click the Recent Articles: Recent Articles Block link and assign the block to a region. After selecting a
region from the list, save the block and return to the homepage of your site. You should be happy to see the
list of articles that you created displayed through the block that you created using views (see Figure 9-6).
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