Recent posts

1. You can download and study how it is done in themes you saw > and apply it to your theme.
2. You can use a recent_posts plugin

Thanks!
I tried fruitlessly to tweak the sidebar the way I had seen in other themes. I couldn’t get it quite right.
So i downloaded and installed the customizable-post-listings
Plug-in.
That did the trick.

When I write the code suggested on: https://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/
“

Recent Posts
<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(3); ?>

“
My code no longer validates??

By default the plugin outputs each listed post within <li></li> tags. So you need something like:

Recent Posts
<ul>
<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(3); ?>
</ul>

Or define your own format via the function’s second argument (read the docs for this on the abovementioned page).

I am sorry, that’s the exact code I put in at first. The validator complained about that too ??
Why do you need a plugin for showing the recent posts in the first place?
Can’t you simply put in code like this:

(the ul code)
Recent posts
<?php wp_get_recent_posts(3); ?>
(the end ul code)

`

It finally worked. The trick is to place your extra code so you won’t corrupt the rest ??
Thank you very much!

Anyone either have a solution to fix customizable-post-listings now that it doesn’t work with 2.3, or have another good way of doing this? Half my site has broken code now and I want to fix this as soon as possible. Tried a few things, but I need to skip that first item on recent posts.

I had been toying with using this code, but can’t seem to make it work:

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=front-page&showposts=1');
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>