Unfortunately that just displays 3 posts from each year. I have tried various numbers with the ‘posts_per_page’ but it doesn’t seem to fix it.
i’m sure there are more than one solution to this problem, and the:
$posts_to_exclude = array(4305);
if(!in_array($post->ID, $posts_to_exclude)):
seems the most likely to do it. I just can’t figure out how to create the array of the 3 latest posts.
Thanks for the response though.