How to add “Latest Posts” link to home static page

This plugin is very flexible for something like that:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/
Need to also install https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/post-plugin-library/

If you don’t like the plugin route, here’s some code for your page template that you would put AFTER your existing loop:

<?php
$posts=get_posts('numberposts=5');
if ($posts) {
foreach($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<?php the_time('m.d.y') ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

<?php }
}
?>

Thanks MichaelH I’ll try one of those