Set recent posts title in the sidebar in WP

Hi guys.. I'm trying to setup my WP blog and I'm wondering how to get my recent post titles in the sidebar. My site is www.demakelaarinzwolle.nl and as you can see on the right sidebar there is one Item "Artikelen" which means articles. I want to get my 5 recent posts (titles) in there.

Anyone can recommend me how to do that or which source I should use? Currently I was searching on Google and have found some things, but I don't understand exactly what to do..

Help would be appreciated and green rep will be given.

Thanks!

 

Anyone, please?

 

you can code this manually however you may want to try one of the many plugins which achieve this (eg. this one)

do a search at http://wordpress.org/extend/ for 'recent comments' and you'll find a few of them

 

thanks, rep has been added

 

No plugin necessary. In your sidebar.php add:

<?php get_archives('postbypost', 5); ?>

Code (markup):

More info on it here.

 

thanks man, this is what i was looking for! block of green rep has been added

 

Simply use the widget of Recent Posts buddy, no edit or anything. To show recent posts from specific categories and not all, you can use this recent post plugin. You can see it working in my portfolio of symbian themes blog.