Title: Use a Plugin or a Feed.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Use a Plugin or a Feed.

 *  Resolved [ekstra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ekstra/)
 * (@ekstra)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-a-plugin-or-a-feed/)
 * I’m putting together [http://www.eksist.com](http://www.eksist.com) and I’d like
   to be able to link the latest changes to my blog on my non-blog homepage (same
   site).
 * With a bit of trial and effort I managed to do the equivalent with the Coppermine
   gallery software using a plugin and some basic PHP editting.
 * However, I’m a bit at a loss of the best way to do this for the WordPress blog.
   There so much help information that I’m literally drowning trying to decide where
   to apply myself.
 * So here it is, please help if you can:
 * To link the most recent 3 titles of a wordpress blog (on the same server) to 
   my homepage, do you recommend using a plugin or RSS feeds, or am I missing something
   even more obvious?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-a-plugin-or-a-feed/#post-387343)
 * Lots of options! Here’s one: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page)
 * In particular, this section might appeal:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Adding_a_Mini-Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Adding_a_Mini-Loop)
 *  Thread Starter [ekstra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ekstra/)
 * (@ekstra)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-a-plugin-or-a-feed/#post-387496)
 * Thank you for the link, this does seem to be the information I was looking for.
   I have experimented with the suggested code, but have been unable to load my 
   html page without a
 * Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/webroot/virtual/
   eksist.com/index.experimental.html on line 47
 * The code I’m using is clipped from the codex [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page)
   and changed to reflect the wordpress path on the server. Its the code to add 
   a miniloop to a static page.
 * Line 47 is the line which begins
    $news=$wpdb->get_results(“SEL
 * I have tried simplifying the section of code to its basics, but don’t seem to
   be able to get rid of the error message. I’m using wordpress v. 2.02 and a nearly
   unmodified version of ‘boxy but gold’ for a theme.
 * Anyone got any ideas?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-a-plugin-or-a-feed/#post-387498)
 * I’m just throwing out ideas… I notice the initial mini-loop example on that page
   doesn’t have what the lower examples on that page have:
 * `<?php define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);require('./wp-blog-header.php'); get_header();?
   >`
 * Just guessing, would that make a diff?
 *  Thread Starter [ekstra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ekstra/)
 * (@ekstra)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-a-plugin-or-a-feed/#post-387585)
 * Thank you.
 * I’m not sure exactly what did the job, but your idea of trying some of the other
   code on the page certainly helped me get there. I think part of the issue was
   the way wordpress would edit some of the native html after I’d paste it in.
 * Anyways, its working now and my issue is sort of ‘resolved’, thanks again.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-a-plugin-or-a-feed/#post-387585)
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