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Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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Getting recent Wordpress posts

Hello,

I was wondering if Wordpress offers something similar to the get recent summary page that Treehouse has on its blog. It's for a project much like the Blog Reader App except using wordpress.

Thanks!

2 Answers

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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You want to get x number of most recent posts? That's just a very basic WP loop. By default it gets the most recents posts from the post type "posts", the standard WP posts that come with any install.

If you've made some custom post types, you'll need to include them with a WP_Query array.

MIke Allen
MIke Allen
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MIke Allen
MIke Allen
9,727 Points

Hey Stephen,

This is strait from the Wordpress Codex but here is the code you need to show recent posts.

within the line which starts with $args - set the number => 5 to however many number of posts you want.

/* Code begins */

<h2>Recent Posts</h2> <ul> <?php $args = array( 'numberposts' => '5' ); $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args ); foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){ echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="Look '.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' . $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li> '; } ?> </ul>

/* Code Ends */

Cheers