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1. st0nn
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hello all!

   This is my first post here so kindly be gentle, I am not lazy: I have searched for this on google but didnt find the answer.

   Basically i have my sites blog set up at ezee.se/articles-blog/ and what i want to do is get the headlines of the past x number of articles to show on my first page.

   I have seen this done on other sites like: latest 5 articles from our blog
   1. blah 1
   2. blah blah
   3. blah
   etc

   Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

2. haochi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Use get_posts().

   <ol>
   <?php
   $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=5');
   foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
   ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   </ol>

3. st0nn
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi!
   Thanks for replying!

   I tried it here:
   http://www.ezee.se/articles-blog/test_wordpress_headlines.php

   but its giving me this error:

   Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_posts() in /home/ezeese/public_html/articles-blog/test_wordpress_headlines.php on line 2

   What do i do?

   Thanks!

4. haochi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You are supposed to put the code in one of your theme files (e.g. sidebar.php), not in a totally unrelated file.

5. st0nn
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi!

   Thats exactly it... i want the headlines in ezee.se/index.php not in the blog itself... any way to do that?

   Thanks!

6. jsherk
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have been doing this for a while... I have 5 seperate WP installs, and on my main home page (which is outside all WP blogs) I show recent posts from all 5 of these installs.

   The problem is that I just upgraded to WP 2.5 and it stopped working... when I get it working again, I'll post some info here for you.

   Try this for now and see if it turns up what you need:
   http://wordpress.org/search/Displaying+posts+on+an+external+page.?forums=1

7. haochi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   There are a lot of ways to this. Magpie and SimplePie are both written in PHP and can handle this task very easily. SimplePie even has a quick tutorial on how to include multiple feeds.

   Or you can just use the old school PHP + MySQL to do it.

8. st0nn
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks guys, will have a look and come back if i still hit a wall

9. st0nn
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Got it! Anyone else in this problem can check out:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/128858?replies=3

   Cheers!

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