limit wp_list_pages

https://www.semiologic.com/2005/04/10/wordpress-recent-plugin-collection/

“Recent updates displays a list of recently updated pages on your WordPress blog.”

The bad thing is… pages and Pages are two different things in WP. And the OP was asking about Pages.
(meanwhile the plugin author should make it clear: it is about posts!)

The best way I think is to write a little function that does the similar job as wp_list_pages. However, here’s an alternative way.

<?php $pages = wp_list_pages('title_li=&sort_column=post_date&sort_order=DESC&depth=-1&echo=0');
preg_match_all('/(<li.*?>)(.*?)<\/li>/i', $pages, $matches);
if (!empty($matches[0])) {
  print '<ul>' . implode("\n", array_slice($matches[0],0,25)) . '</ul>';
}
?>

Note that this won’t work if depth parameter set to other than -1 when there are child pages.

“meanwhile the plugin author should make it clear: it is about posts!”

Yes indeed! He had me fooled!

it seems that the function works fine.

thanks yoshi