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1. partisanentity
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I have looked through the forum but haven't found what I am looking for yet (i think).

   Is it possible to have a list of the 10 most recent posts but only to show titles?

   For example:

   Recent Posts

   My dog Billy
   Today I ate an ant
   How to install Linux
   Bought a new car
   Flowers

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Where do you want to display those 10 recent posts?

   Customizing your Sidebar has an example of doing this using the template tag, wp_get_archives.

3. partisanentity
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   For example on my Navigation page, above the Archives I would like to have a list of the 10 most recent posts (of course without the actual articles, just clickable titles).

4. Adam Brown
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I haven't tested this, but it should work. If you want to tweak it, check these out:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags

   <?php
   query_posts(showposts=10);
   if ( have_posts() ){
     echo '<ul>';
     while ( have_posts() ){
       the_post(); ?>
   
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   <?php
     }
     echo '</ul>';
   }
   ?>

5. partisanentity
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   hmm I get this error:

   Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘=’ in /home/site/public_html/web/wp-content/plugins/runPHP/runPHP.php(383) : eval()’d code on line 2

   Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/site/public_html/web/wp-content/plugins/runPHP/runPHP.php(383) : eval()’d code on line 2

6. Adam Brown
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   My bad. Left out some apostrophes.

   <?php
   query_posts('showposts=10');
   if ( have_posts() ){
     echo '<ul>';
     while ( have_posts() ){
       the_post(); ?>
   
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   <?php
     }
     echo '</ul>';
   }
   ?>

7. partisanentity
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks for the help so far, but none of the code posted here worked and it seems to be conflicting with the 'run php' plugin I have installed.

   I keep getting the same error as I posted earlier, the one mentioning run php.

   Does anyone what I need to do to get it to work? Thank you!

8. partisanentity
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Solved it, this tag worked: <?php get_archives('postbypost', 10); ?>

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