Show Post Excerpt in Sidebar

  • Resolved sagetips

    (@sagetips)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    I have a static front page (401k Planning) and would like to include an excerpt of the most recent post in the sidebar. I thought this would be no big deal, but my searching has yielded no workable results thus far.

    Any ideas?

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  • hi – you can add some get_posts code to your sidebar. Something like this should do it. If you don’t want the permalink link or the title you can remove that part of the code

    <?php
 $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=1');
 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

    This page has more info
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_posts

    Thread Starter sagetips

    (@sagetips)

    Thanks stvwlf!

    That works nicely.

    Awesome, exactly what I needed. Thanks!

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