Calling new post “teaser” in html page

Have a look at Creating_a_Static_Front_Page. In particular, the integration and mini-loop sections might be helpful.

Perfect. The mini-loop was the ticket. This solution will create a list with the most recent posts’ titles. Could you tell me how to also add the first line or two of the actual post? I tried to do it myself in the php code, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it work.

Try adding the_excerpt in your mini-loop.

Similar to the examples you see for The_Loop, just replacing the_content with the_excerpt.

Hope that made sense…

I guess that was kind of over my head. Here’s what I’ve got:

<?php
$how_many=2; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once("blog/wp-config.php"); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>
<ul id="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_status= \"publish\" ORDER BY 'ID' DESC LIMIT ".$how_many);
foreach($news as $np){
printf ("
<li><a>%s</a></li>
", $np->ID,$np->post_title);
}?>


Where do I add in the the_excerpt?

Ah. oops. THAT sort of loop…

Unfortunately, that negates use of the_excerpt tag I think. We’ll need to wait for one of the brighter folks to spot this and help out. :-\