Title: A Drupal Views equivalent Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # A Drupal Views equivalent * [wpfan1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfan1000/) * (@wpfan1000) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/) * Dear developers of WordPress. * I love WP. I thank you for making it. * The first CMS that I learned about 5 years ago, was Drupal, because it had what I needed at the time: * 1) Custom content 2) Custom fields 3) A menu driven query builder called Views * You may of course already be aware that these are part of Drupal 🙂 * Views is an incredible piece of software. IMHO it sets Drupal apart from many other CMS’s. Views is complex and elegant. Without Views, Drupal would be a much less significant cms. * Drupal Gardens (Drupal SAAS) did not get much interest until Acquia added a basics Views. * Views is going into core of Drupal 8 it seems. * Then I started to dislike Drupal in many other ways. * And I noticed a while back that WP has custom content and custom fields, either thru code or plugins. Wonderful. * I did not see a Views equivalent, but again I disliked Drupal so much that I taught myself how to use wp_query. I can now make simple custom queries no problemo. * It was wonderful to move away from Drupal. It is wonderful to use WP in so many ways. * But it would be more wonderful if WP had a good Views equivalent. * So this is my feature request: * Could you develop a Views equivalent? * Or could you please help the development of a plugin, if you are not already doing so? * Much like Views was developed by a third party developer and not the Drupal core team, there are developers building a Views equivalent plugin (as you may be aware already of course): * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/query-wrangler/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/query-wrangler/) * I really applaud the work that these developers are doing. IMHO they are making something that does or will make a huge contribution to WP. * Maybe you could consider helping the integration of this plugin with WP? * I have not tried the plugin recently and it may already be really good. But building a Views equivalent is a grand goal, it is not trivial software. * Thank you for your consideration. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [wpfan1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfan1000/) * (@wpfan1000) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370537) * Dear mods, * I thought I posted this in a feature request forum but not I see it is in the Installation forum. * Not sure how that happened but could you please move it to the appropriate forum? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370539) * Sure thing. * Thread Starter [wpfan1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfan1000/) * (@wpfan1000) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370541) * Thanks WPyogi 🙂 * [John_W_B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john_w_b/) * (@john_w_b) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370645) * There is a paid alternative to Query Wrangler [http://wp-types.com/home/views-create-elegant-displays-for-your-content/](http://wp-types.com/home/views-create-elegant-displays-for-your-content/). It would be useful to have a comparison. I have not yet bought I licence for that so cannot yet offer any insight. Query Wrangler is good, and the maintainer has been good at responding to bug reports for the beta version. * Thread Starter [wpfan1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfan1000/) * (@wpfan1000) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370649) * @ John_W_B * I’d like to keep the focus of this topic on a request for WP to support a free plugin or develop a Views like equivalent as part of core. * If you’d like to discuss paid options or make comparisons please start a new topic. * [Stefano Cecere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krur/) * (@krur) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370703) * i am in your situation (coming from other “big” CMS with Views like core modules) * i think that this new WP core project [http://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/metamorphosis/](http://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/metamorphosis/) is the basis for a native Views plugin. * i’m happily following it * [Stefano Cecere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krur/) * (@krur) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370704) * PS: now i’ using [http://pods.io](http://pods.io) (free and on GitHub), with a fresh new Views module coming soon (it’ll be called Pods Frontier) * anyway their authors are active in the metamorphosis team.. so something really good will come in next months! * Thread Starter [wpfan1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfan1000/) * (@wpfan1000) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370709) * Thanks Stefano for the information. I was not aware of these projects. looks very interesting! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘A Drupal Views equivalent’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [feature-requests](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/feature-requests/) * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) * 8 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [wpfan1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfan1000/) * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-drupal-views-equivalent/#post-4370709) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics