Display latest wordpress posts title

Hey!

Does anyone know how I can display the latest 5 wordpress post title into the main website?

Currently wordpress is installed in a folder on the same server I want to display the posts links on.

How can I do that?

Thanks

 

You will want to use a variation of "The Loop" that only prints out title.
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

To filter "The Loop" and only show your 5 latest posts, you will probably use the query_posts() method right before your loop.

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&posts_per_page=5'); ?>

PHP:

 

Save the following code as latest.php in your wordpress folder

<?php

$numberOfPosts = 5;

if (empty($wp)) {
    require_once('wp-config.php'); wp('feed=rss');
}

if ($posts) {
    $i = 1;
    foreach ($posts as $post) {
        start_wp();
?>

<a href="<?php permalink_single_rss() ?>" /><?php the_title_rss() ?></a><br>

<?php
        if (++$i > $numberOfPosts) {
            break;
        }
    }
}
?>

PHP:

Then you can include it in your main index file thusly

<?php

include "wordpress/latest.php";

?>

PHP:

 

thanks a lot for that!

it works a treat