Displaying Latest Blog Entries on Home Page (WordPress)

I need a plugin for WordPress, that can display the titles/first words of the latest blog entries. The blog is on a subdomain and I want these latest entries to be displayed on the main home page.
I searched for such a plugin but couldn't find one.

Anyone know of some ready-made one?

 

Shawn, you are right. I just don't want to write it myself, but I'll have to if no one points to an already-written solution.

 

nohaber, you could use the rss feed from the blog and display it on another site via a php script.

Your feed can be found here: http://blog.seoguide.org/?feed=rss the php script to show the rss feed can be found here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=7354

 

Yeah, use magpierss to display your rss feed on your front page.

 

Thanks for the tips. Actually, it turned out to be easy. I just put a php file in the blog subdomain and include it from the main page. If someone is interested here's the code I use:

<?php

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php');
$title_was_printed = false;

$posts = get_posts('numberposts=3');
foreach ($posts as $post) :
if ($title_was_printed == false) {$title_was_printed = true; print "<h1>Latest SEO Blog Entries</h1>";}
?>

<p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> -
<small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> - Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?></small></p>

<?php
endforeach;

if ($title_was_printed == true) {
?>
<p align=right style="margin:0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://blog.seoguide.org"><b>&raquo;&raquo; Read The SEO Blog &laquo;&laquo;</b></a></p>

<?php } ?>

Code (markup):

It works well on my home page http://www.seoguide.org

 

Thank you! It is simple and it works!

 

Haber,

I tried this, but get the following error (I'm using WordPress 2.0 by the way):

Fatal error: Call to a member function get_row() on a non-object in /blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 281

I'm stuck. Any clues?

Thanks,

Dave

 

Why not just consume the RSS feed. I do that on many of my sites and it works great.

 

Well, I could look at that can of worms next, but I've finally gotten the lid off this can...

I guess because I'm not sure how much I can customize the RSS feed relative to what I want to appear on my home page. I have a standard RSS feed, but I want titles, dates & possibly a short summary only on the home page.

Come to think of it I probably should consider this...

Anyway I did figure out the problem I posted about. I had to include wp-config.php at a higher level than on the specific page I was working on. I added it to our standardincludes.php file and all is well.

 

ServerUnion,

Can you provide a little more detail or link about that. I am interested.