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I posted this on CSS-Tricks.com and someone said to use this:

<div class="fourcolumn">
        <h2>Latest Post</h2>

        <?php query_posts( 'posts_per_page=1' ); ?>
        <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
                <div class="lp-dates"><?php the_time('M <br /> j') ?></div>

                <div class="latest-post"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php wpe_excerpt('wpe_excerptlength_teaser', 'wpe_excerptmore'); ?></a><div class="dash-divider"></div></div>
        <?php endwhile; ?>

        <?php else: ?>
                <h1>Not Found</h1>  

                <p>Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post</p>
        <?php endif; ?>
</div>

It works perfect!

I tried this and it just brings back errors:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php
// The Query
$query = new WP_Query( 'posts_per_page=5' );

// The Loop
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
	echo '<li>';
	the_title();
	echo '</li>';
endwhile;

// Reset Post Data
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
     <?php endif; ?>

I’ve never heard of post_status => publish. I’m not very good at php. So obviously this is over my head.

No, I want to show the 5 most recent out of all of the posts. I know you can display the most recent post titles with a widget. However, I want a description under each one.

Haha, okay. That is what I have been saying all along. So you cannot pull all of your posts on any other page but the home because the is no way to target them. Nice.

<?php if ( ! have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php
// The Query
$query = new WP_Query( 'pagename=blog' );
// The Loop
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
	echo '<li>';
	the_title();
	echo '</li>';
endwhile;
// Reset Post Data
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

I’m guessing this is completely wrong

Never mind I see that there is “pagename”.

The post from the blog, or index page. Can you not pull posts from a page?

So to call the blog feed I would put this in functions:

<?php

// The Query
$query = new WP_Query( 'name=blog' );

// The Loop
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
	echo '<li>';
	the_title();
	echo '</li>';
endwhile;

// Reset Post Data
wp_reset_postdata();

?>

I guess there is no way to use index.html. Also, how do I call this in the feed? I will keep reading. Sorry, I’m a little slow :/.

Sorry, what else can you select?

Thanks, I have read through multiple_loops before. I know it talks about calling the categories. How do you call the blog feed from the index? This seems like it should be something simple :/.

Fixed it!! Thank you!! <3