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Hello everybody, i wanna static frontpage wich shows only 1 or 2 posts. Can you please give me an example what do i have do in home.php?
I found this one but it shows only links.

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn"><h1 style="color:#000;">Welcome to my site</h1>
Hello and welcome to my site. You can go to my web page about how to improve your
shoots with your digital camera; or you can go to my blog
<h2>Lastest posts in my blog:</h2>

<?php
# Here starts Mini Loop trick: You can use this code, but _at your own risk_
# If you want to improve this code, you're welcome ;)

$how_many=2; //How many posts do you want to show ?>
<ul class="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_status = \"publish\" ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT ".$how_many);
foreach($news as $np){
printf ("