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Wordpress: Display Latest Blog Posts on Any Wordpress Page

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  1. <?php
  2. $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 10, 'order'=> 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'title' );
  3. $postslist = get_posts( $args );
  4. foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?> 
  5. 	<div>
  6. 		<?php the_time(); ?>
  7. 		<?php the_title(); ?>   
  8. 		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
  9.                 <?php the_category(', '); ?>
  10. 	</div>
  11. <?php endforeach; ?>
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  15. Notice the div around the_time, the_title, the_excerpt and the_category. You can wrap html elements to fit and style any of these functions.
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  17. the_time will display the time of the post. use the_time instead of the_date.
  18. http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time
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  20. the_title will display the post title.
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  22. the_excerpt will display the post excerpt which defaults to 55 characters unless specified by a filter in functions.php. currently the twenty-ten theme sets the excerpt character limit.
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  24. the_category will display which categories the post is in, if any.

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