Title: Display only latest post
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Display only latest post

 *  Resolved [Ellski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellski/)
 * (@ellski)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-only-latest-post/)
 * Hello!
    I want to display at my home page the title and an excerpt from the latest
   post in the blog. I wonder if there is a way to get the name of the latest post
   and use it in the shortcode? Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-only-latest-post/#post-5448419)
 * Hello,
 * The [loop] shortcode gets posts ordered by date, by default. So, to display the
   title and excerpt of the latest post, something like this should work:
 *     ```
       [loop type="post" count="1"]
         [field title] - [field excerpt]
       [/loop]
       ```
   
 * For displaying the post date, adjusting excerpt length, adding a “read more” 
   link, etc., please refer to the documentation in the Content section.
 *  Thread Starter [Ellski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellski/)
 * (@ellski)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-only-latest-post/#post-5448423)
 * Thank you, Eliot!
    That was exactly what I needed!

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 * Last reply from: [Ellski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellski/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-only-latest-post/#post-5448423)
 * Status: resolved