Title: Views Output Formats
Author: Stanislav Khromov
Published: <strong>November 17, 2013</strong>
Last modified: July 28, 2016

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# Views Output Formats

 By [Stanislav Khromov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khromov/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/views-output-formats.2.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/views-output-formats/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/views-output-formats/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/views-output-formats/#installation)
 * [Development](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/views-output-formats/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/views-output-formats/)

## Description

This plugin provides JSON and XML output formats for Toolset Views.

The plugin will also fetch all available custom fields for each post, making it 
truly simple to integrate WordPress
 with other systems that speak JSON and XML.

**New in version 2.0**

This plugin now supports Taxonomy and User queries!

**Usage**

_Basic usage_

Create your View, go to Settings -> Views Output Formats and pick your format. You
will get a link to the XML or JSON version of the query.

### Requirements

 * PHP 5.3 or higher

### Translations

 * None

### Upcoming features

Support for attaching taxonomy data to posts is planned

Feel free to contribute over at GitHub:
 https://github.com/khromov/wp-views-output-
formats

## Screenshots

[⌊Administration menu⌉⌊Administration menu⌉[

Administration menu

[⌊Exported XML example⌉⌊Exported XML example⌉[

Exported XML example

## Installation

 1. Upload the `views-output-formats` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Create your View using Toolset Views, go to Settings -> Views Output Formats and
    pick your format to get a link!

## FAQ

  What are the prerequisites for using this plugin?

You need to have the Toolset Views plugin installed.

More information can be found here:

http://wp-types.com/home/views-create-elegant-displays-for-your-content/

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Views Output Formats” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Stanislav Khromov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khromov/)

[Translate “Views Output Formats” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/views-output-formats)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/views-output-formats/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/views-output-formats/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/views-output-formats/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/views-output-formats/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.1

 * New field: _thumbnail_url – This field returns the URL of the featured image 
   for the post

#### 2.0

 * Support for Taxonomy queries
 * Support for User queries (Views 1.4 and up)
 * Improved XML validation
 * Improved security with per-view API tokens and global token

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.6.30**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/views-output-formats/)
 * Tags
 * [JSON](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/json/)[query](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/query/)
   [views](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/views/)[wp_query](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp_query/)
   [xml](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/xml/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://nqo.wordpress.org/plugins/views-output-formats/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Stanislav Khromov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khromov/)

## Support

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