Displaying Recent Posts

If you want to show your recent posts, copy and paste the code in the text area below somewhere in your sidebar.

The code in the text area below would retrieve your 10 recent blog posts. You may change <h2> </h2> depending on how you would like the title “Recent Posts” to appear.

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

If you want to change the number of recent posts to show, use the code below instead. Just change the number highlighted in bold.

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

That’s it, just save your page and upload it to your current theme folder.