The content of each of our posts has been assigned one or more tags to identify what category the post belongs to. This type of identification gives our end users another way to easily navigate content. On our mockup, the right-hand sidebar contains a custom block with an unordered list of categories. We will utilize views to create a block display of taxonomy terms by following these steps.
To get started, we will need to navigate to /admin/structure/views
and click on the Add new view button. From the Views admin screen, we will add the following information:
Categories
.Post categories
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.Now that our Categories view has been created, we will need to adjust the format settings. With the view still open, we will need to adjust the following fields:
We now need to adjust the settings of our Taxonomy term field to exclude any extraneous CSS. With the view still open, we will need to adjust the following field:
Make sure to click on the Save button in the main view window to save the changes we just made, and then look at the results in the Preview window.