How put latest post from each category on homepage

Only a portion of the post will be shown….Once again, it’ll show most/all of the post.

You will need to read up on using template tag, the_content() or the_excerpt(), in your theme’s Templates. Also review the Excerpt article and the first four questions here. You will also want to have a basic understanding of the WordPress Template Hierarchy to know what Templates are used to render posts.

I want to have my blog home page have only the three latest posts from the 3 categories i specify

This will print categories and posts
<?php
//for categories 42,6,8, show 3 posts
$cat_args=array(
  'include' => '42,6,8',
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC'
   );
$categories=get_categories($cat_args);
  foreach($categories as $category) {
    $args=array(
      'showposts' => 3,
      'category__in' => array($category->term_id),
      'caller_get_posts'=>1
    );
    $posts=get_posts($args);
      if ($posts) {
        echo '<p>Category: <a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a> </p> ';
        foreach($posts as $post) {
          setup_postdata($post); ?>
          <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
          <?php
        } // foreach($posts
      } // if ($posts
    } // foreach($categories
?>

When I click on one of the posts, it’ll take the user to all the posts from that category, listed as reverse-chronologically as most blogs do. Once again, it’ll show most/all of the post.

When a post on this 2nd-tier is clicked on, it takes you to the single-post view, where you can add comments etc as usual.

The way WordPress works is “When I click on one of the Categories displayed with each post, it’ll take the user to all the posts from that category.” If you click on a post title, that will take you to the single post view.

Obviously the style.css page would also need to be changed.

Not necessarily so…

Thanks Michael for the code. Just another question, how do I implement 'feed '=> 'RSS' to the code?

On the
echo '<p>Category: <a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a> Feed Icon Here</p> ';

I want to have the Feed Icon by each category