List Recent Posts in WordPress

List recent posts in WordPress

— Quick tip on how to list recent posts in WordPress. This is very easy and only requires to know WP_Query and write a few lines of code.

WordPress Template File

Insert the following code in the WordPress template file you want to display the list of recent posts.

<h4>Recent Posts</h4>
<ul>
<?php
// replace 5 with the number of posts you want to show.
$aRecentPosts = new WP_Query("showposts=5");
while($aRecentPosts->have_posts()) : $aRecentPosts->the_post();?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?> " rel="bookmark"><?php the_title();?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

And thats it! You can see a working sample of this at the bottom of this site. Cheers!

Tags: PHP, RESOURCES, TEMPLATE FUNCTIONS

Monday, September 15th, 2008 WordPress

4 Responses to “List recent posts in WordPress”

Excellent i been looking for this, thank you
albert on October 5, 2008.
Thank you so much!!!
Aman on November 19, 2008.
Thanks for the comments :)
Matt on November 20, 2008.
Wasn’t actually looking for a post on this but it’s really going to help with my WordPress plug-ins.

Cheers Matt.
Stephen McIntyre on January 4, 2010.