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I have a View containing the latest news in a very standard way (ie: one below the other)... I would like to inject, at certain points, other blocks containing other views (ie: latest news with a certain tag), like in this image:

https://i.sstatic.net/3c9Dw.jpg

An easy but impractical approach would be to create different views: one for the latest 2, then one for another 3 news with an offset of 2, etc...

But is there some magic that the new D8 theme layer can do to make this more practical?

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    There is no additional functionality in D8 Views that makes this version specific.
    – tim.plunkett
    Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 2:35
  • ok, tag "8" removed.
    – Sifro
    Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 16:18

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You could create a new View field in modules/yourmodule/lib/Drupal/yourmodule/Plugin/views/Field and "attach" it via hook_views_data_alter() or hook_views_data(). This field would returns a hardcoded view or dynamic, depends on your needs. Another way would be to use Views templates.

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  • It would be great if you could expand the views template answer a bit. ... Show how to use a preprocess function for the new variable and how you could expand the template.
    – Daniel Wehner
    Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 18:35
  • i will study the hook_views_data_alter more carefully then as i've never used it... i do use views templates though, but i can't understand how to use them to achieve what i need... maybe i can define a block region in a views template?
    – Sifro
    Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 16:18
  • See api.drupal.org/api/drupal/…
    – user21641
    Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 23:33

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