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The Easy Way To Display Recent Posts in WordPress

You don’t need any custom queries or database calls just to get a list of recent posts. In fact, there’s a function built into WordPress that will do just that. It’s called, wp_get_archives(). You might recognize that as a way to display monthly archives, but with a few parameters, you can modify it to display a list of recently published WordPress posts. Here’s the code:

<?php wp_get_archives('title_li=&type=postbypost&limit=10'); ?>

What this will do is strip any WordPress added formatting and output a nice list of the 10 latest posts, each within it’s own <li> tag.

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  1. Ellery Davies May 24, 2013 at 8:52 am

    I use the WordPress Twenty-Eleven theme and have always displayed recent posts using the widget in Jetpack. But I want this list to show in the individual posts as well. Is there a way to do this?

  2. Muchas gracias!!!! Thank you very much!!!! Just what I was looking for!

    Saludos desde Spain 😉
    Sara

  3. Thanks! That solved my problem in 2 seconds.

  4. Thanx Leland – just in the nick of time
    *Love ur site btw 😀

    M.?

  5. Sachin @ Web Design Mauritius May 14, 2010 at 8:30 am

    I’ve implemented it on my about page here: http://www.webdesign-bureau-of-mauritius.com/web-design-mauritius

    It works like a charm. Thanks for this!

  6. Can you also tell the system to display the excerpt for the post? or just a teaser?

  7. Okay. All this code does is display a very simple list of recent posts. The markup is similar to this:

    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/recent-post-3">Latest One</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/recent-post-2">2nd Latest Post</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/recent-post-1">3rd Latest Post</a></li>
    </ul>

    If you want anything else (thumbnails, character counts, whatever) that would require a custom loop and I can’t really go over each specific case in the comments here.

  8. How do I do this and also have thumbnails? Very small thumbnails. 35px X 35 px. Google is annoying me sending me round in circles all day long. They’re useless lol.

    Well I await your useful reply.

    Thanks.

    1. Oh wow this is easy 😀 Thanks for this great article!

      BTW, has anyone come across functions to merge both recent post and page update in chronological order?

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