Static page with recent blog posts

This will display 5 posts–put it in your Page template. If you want the post content you will need to add the template tag, the_content().

<?php
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => 5,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo 'List of Posts';
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    }
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Thank you for teh code! I added it and I get a list. I tried adding the_content but nothing happens. This is the page template

<?php
/*
Template Name: Homepage
*/

get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">
<div class="post">

<?php
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => 5,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo 'List of Posts';
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    }
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

 <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

  <?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>
 <?php endwhile; else: ?>
  <p><strong>There has been a glitch in the Matrix.</strong><br />
  There is nothing to see here.</p>
  <p>Please try somewhere else.</p>
 <?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- end #post-->
</div><!-- end #content-->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Not sure what I’m doing wrong there..

That 2nd loop will display the Page. So add this

<?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>

after this:

<p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>

Thank you so much! It works. I can even add the_excerpt ??

I hope I’m not asking too much (I probably am..) but here goes another question… I wouldn’t ask this much but I have been trying to fix this for 2 hours now and I just can;t figure it out.. I’m new to php ??

So.. to my singlepost.php I added this to the author meta tag

<?php printf(__('Written by %1$s in %2$s'),'<a href="'. get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_ID()) .'" title="'. sprintf(__("Posts by %s"), attribute_escape(get_the_author())).' ">'. get_the_author() .'</a>',$category_link);
    ?>

so it will take you to all the posts by the author.

Then I made.. actually borrowed a php from another theme called author.php

<?php
 /* Mystique/digitalnature */
 get_header();
?>

  <!-- main content: primary + sidebar(s) -->
  <div id="main">
   <div id="main-inside" class="clearfix">
    <!-- primary content -->
    <div id="primary-content">

       <?php
       // global $wp_query;
       // $curauth = $wp_query->get_queried_object();

       if(isset($_GET['author_name'])): $curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name); else : $curauth = get_userdata(intval($author)); endif;
       ?>

       <h1 class="title"><?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></h1>

       <div class="clearfix">
       <div class="alignleft"><?php echo get_avatar($curauth->user_email, '128', $avatar); ?></div>
       <div>
        <p>
        <?php
         if($curauth->user_description<>''): echo $curauth->user_description;
         else: _e("This user hasn't shared any biographical information","mystique");
         endif;
        ?>
        </p>
         <?php
          if(($curauth->user_url<>'https://') && ($curauth->user_url<>'')) echo '<p class="im www">'.__('Homepage:','mystique').' <a href="'.$curauth->user_url.'">'.$curauth->user_url.'</a></p>';
          if($curauth->yim<>'') echo '<p class="im yahoo">'.__('Yahoo Messenger:','mystique').' <a href="ymsgr:sendIM?'.$curauth->yim.'">'.$curauth->yim.'</a></p>';
          if($curauth->jabber<>'') echo '<p class="im gtalk">'.__('Jabber/GTalk:','mystique').' <a href="gtalk:chat?jid='.$curauth->jabber.'">'.$curauth->jabber.'</a></p>';
          if($curauth->aim<>'') echo '<p class="im aim">'.__('AIM:','mystique').' <a href="aim:goIM?screenname='.$curauth->aim.'">'.$curauth->aim.'</a></p>';
         ?>
       </div>
       </div>
       <div class="divider"></div>

<br />
       <?php if (have_posts()): ?>
        <h3 class="title"><?php printf(__('Posts by %s', 'mystique'), $curauth->display_name); ?></h3>
        <div class="divider"></div>  

 <?php
          while (have_posts()):
           the_post();
           include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/post.php');
          endwhile;
        ?>
     <div class="page-navigation clearfix">
        <?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')): wp_pagenavi(); else: ?>
        <div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older Entries','mystique')) ?></div>
        <div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;','mystique')) ?></div>
        <?php endif; ?>
       </div>

       <?php else : ?>
        <p class="error"><?php _e('No posts found by this author.','mystique'); ?></p>
       <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

    <!-- /primary content -->

    <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

   </div>
  </div>
  <!-- /main content -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

..and there’s a

include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/post.php');

in that code. The post.php is the code you gave me

<?php
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => 5,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo 'List of Posts';
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
<?php the_excerpt(__('Read more'));?>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    }
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

It takes you to the author page and shows all posts by the author but the “list of posts” appears two times. I don’t know what to erase to have the list appear just once.

Not sure why you would need that code I gave you because that has a loop to display posts and all that other stuff is another loop to display posts.

yes, I fixed it.