How to show new posts in Wordpress static home page?

I am using wordpress static page function. However, I also want to show excerpts of latest posts within the page.

How should I do this? Any wordpress plugins that can work like this?

Using wordpress 3.01

Thanks for the help.

 

I don't get exactly what you are asking. Why are you showing your posts in a static page? Is this in addition to your main index template with your posts?

 

You "could" do it this way:

The page you currently have as a static page, make it into a post and use the "Stick this post to the front page" option in the "Visibility" options on the right of your WP edit post page. Then in Settings/Reading options change "Blog pages to show at most" to choose how many excerpts you want to show.

You may need to add "more" tags in your posts or choose to use an excerpt plugin to make sure excerpts are shown and not full posts.

That's one way you could get around it.

Tony

 

You can use your blog's rss feeds to display the latest posts on your static homepage by using the Simplepie wordpress plugin. Its an RSS parser sort of a thing..and a bit hard to configure. You might also need to use the exec-php plugin to make it work

 

I agree and would like to add that if the template you're using shows the full post rather than the excerpts of the post you can use a plugin to show just the excerpts, I use a plugin called Homepage excerpts.

 

its simple

<ul>
<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<li><?php the_excerpt(__('(more…)')); ?></li>
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

PHP:

will display the last 5 posts in a list with excerpt summaries.

 

Thanks guys for the replies and the code. I will try to modify my template and see how it goes.

 

I too have a static front page and want to show post excerpts on it. I would like to try this code but don't know where I should place it.

some advice would be greatly appreciated.

best
Digidunc

 

You need to use that in your custom page template.

 

Ok fine, but does it matter whereabouts the code is placed?

 

Place it between your content container or wherever you want to show the list.

 

Many thanks for the advice

Digidunc