adding-views-reference-to-homepage.md

Adding Views reference to homepage

Let's add two new fields to the Homepage content type. These will be views reference fields in order to display the blocks we created in the Blog posts view.

Be sure to enable the Views reference field module before proceeding.

1. From Drupal's admin toolbar, select Structure > Content types > Homepage > Manage fields
2. Click the Add field button
3. From the Add new field dropdown, under the Reference group, select Views reference
4. Type Blog articles list as the label and click the Save and continue button
5. Limit number of values is Unlimited
6. Click the Save field settings button
7. Under View display plugins to allow select Block
8. Under Preselect View Options select Blog posts
9. Save your changes
10. In Manage display hide the field label.

Adding the views block to the homepage

1. Edit the existing homepage node
2. In the Blog articles field, type Blog posts and select Blog posts when displayed
3. For the Display ID select Featured content
4. Click Add another item
5. This time select From our blog as the Display ID
6. Save your node