Title: Customizing Mini Loop.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Customizing Mini Loop.

 *  [deaftone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deaftone/)
 * (@deaftone)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-mini-loop/)
 * The current mini loop i have can be seen at: [http://www.deaf-monkey.com](http://www.deaf-monkey.com)
   and the mini loop that i would like to mimic, in terms of design and style and
   etc. is at: [http://www.dreamten.com](http://www.dreamten.com) at the bottom 
   of their front page.
 * This is the current code im using for my mini loop:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
       require_once('/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/57867/domains/news.deaf-monkey.com/html/wp-config.php'); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>
   
       <ul id="whats-new">
       <?
       $news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>, <code>comment_count</code>, <code>post_date</code>, <code>post_title</code> FROM $wpdb->posts
       WHERE <code>post_type</code>=\"post\" AND <code>post_status</code>=\"publish\" ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $how_many");
       foreach($news as $np){
       printf ("<li>%s <a href=\"http://news.deaf-monkey.com/index.php?p=%s\">%s</a> %s</li>", $np->post_date,$np->ID,$np->post_title,$np->comment_count);
       }?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * Any help will be greatly appreciated, i apologise for my lack of knowledge in
   modifying this particular aspect of wordpress, so please bare with me for my 
   newbie-ness.

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