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Author: Colin Helvensteijn

WP Lasts Posts is a simple plugin that provides a template tag wplastposts() that displays the title, excerpt and meta data (date, categories, tags, number of posts) from the last few posts from your blog. It takes one argument, which is the number of posts to display (defaults to 5).

It can be seen in action on my home page.

To display the last 5 posts, put wp_last_posts() somewhere in a template file, for instance in your sidebar or underneath the main loop in a custom page template.

To display more or less than 5 posts, you can sepecify the number of posts with an argument. wp_last_posts(3) displays 3 posts. -1 displays all posts.