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Display Your WordPress Recent Posts on a Static Page

This tutorial shows you how to display your recent posts on a static web page. So now you ask the question ‘Define Static?’ There are a variety of reasons why you may have static pages. If you have built a website from scratch and need a blog or news section. You want to pull some information from the blog to your homepage.

There have been several methods on the web including accessing the database. In this simple, but elegant solution I will show you 2 methods. One of which will be on a page with a .php extension and another will be on a page with a .htm extension.

If you want to display your latest posts on an existing WordPress blog please check out the following post.

Please check out Display your WordPress Recent Posts FAQs that I have set up to go along with this tutorial.

WordPress Navigation- Dropdown Menu Image

Having updated my theme to make use of the WordPress navigation menus I decided I wanted to have an indicator to display that there is a drop-down menu. This can be done many ways with plugins etc but I wanted to do it without the need for a plugin. So I had a think and came up with this idea which requires very little knowledge to carry out.

New World WordPress Theme

New World was an adaptation of my 3rd WordPress theme. It is lightweight and suitable for all audiences. It includes a customisable social networking header that has it’s own admin area. Comments are written throughout the template files to aid your customisation. Once downloaded please read the readme.html in the instructions folder for general F.A.Qs. The latest version is 1.3.2 which was released on 3rd February 2011.

New To WordPress, Now What? Newbies Guide

So you are a newbie that has just installed WordPress? Not sure what to do next or which order to do it in? Whether you want to change your permalink structure, tweak your SEO or want to publish your posts on various social networks then here is a little guide to help get you started with you new blog.

WorldOWeb WordPress Theme

WorldOWeb WordPress theme was the original theme that I decided to release into the world. It is a lightweight theme that is suitable for all audiences. It has been tested with WordPress 2.7 upwards. The latest version is 2.2.9 which was released on 3rd October 09. This theme has been deprecated.

WordPress Twitip ID Light Reloaded

Now that I am a twitterer I have decided to integrate Twitter into my WordPress theme. I decided to install WP-Twitip-ID which adds a form field to your comments template, stores the twitter id that is entered and then displays the corresponding twitter ID within the comments.

WP EduBlog WordPress Theme

WP Edublog WordPress Theme is for release. It is a very simple minimalistic design which is suitable for a learning environment such a school. It has been tested with WordPress 2.7 upwards. Latest Version is 1.4.1 which was released on 22nd September 09.

Exclude WordPress Pages from Displaying In Search Page!

WordPress automatically assigns the default category to a single page. This is a simple way to exclude certain pages, for example, a contacts page, from displaying in your search results. A simple way around this is to create a new category, in this instance I have called it pages. Once the category is created hover over the newly created category and look for the cat-ID number as shown below, remember it or write it down.

WordPress Query Breaks Navigation

This is an alternative to my recent post WordPress Blog display using the more tag
as that method worked on my testing server but it decided to give me 404 errors whilst navigating.

WordPress Blog Display-Using The More Tag

Here is a simple solution of how to display one full post on your WordPress homepage and sections on other pages such as archives page and categories page.