Display recent wordpress posts on a page

2
votes

I would like to display all of the recent wordpress posts in a page on wordpress. I have tried a few plugins with not much luck. I would simply like to display the title and excerpt of the last 10 posts. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Kevin

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wordpress

2 Answers

4
votes

Create recentpost.php and save it on the same directory with your current theme

This should be the basic content of your recentpost.php

//-------start here
<?php
/*
Template Name: Recent Post
*/
?>
<?php
 get_header();
?>

<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php
        $args = array( 'numberposts' => '10' );
    $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
    foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
        echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="Look '.$recent["post_title"].'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li> ';
    }
?>
</ul>

<?php
 get_sidebar();
 get_footer();
?>

//--------end here

And on your Admin Control page, create new page, and on the right side you can select the template "Recent Post".

2
votes

This piece of code should display the title and excerpt of the last 10 post 

<?php 
    $arguments = array('numberposts' => '10');
    $posts = wp_get_recent_posts($arguments);
    foreach($posts as $post){
        the_title();
        the_excerpt();
    }
?>