wordpress posts on front page...?

[shiato storm]

I'm re-writing my website and would like to have the recent blog posts made (or rather just the titles at least) displayed on the front page, through which visitors can click to go to the blog main section itself. is there a way to have some sort of rss-type feed direct to the front page at all?

[cougarslam]

do you know any php/sql?

[shiato storm]

i've bashed it about a bit but I'm no pro...What did you have in mind?
I just do enough to cobble together what I needed thus far. I think what I'm after - having read around - is some sort of parser (?) that takes the recent feed and transfers it to html to display on a page....

[DavidM]

try: snoopy.sourceforge.net - and use an rss feed of the latest posts via php.

[tintax]

Sorry to come into this a little late but what I think you want (and completely untested) is:

At the top of your page bring in the wordpress 'header file' (change the path accordingly). This lets you make use of any WordPress function or template tag.

<?php require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>

Add this where you want your list of last five posts.

<ul><?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5'); ?></ul>

Reference:

Creating a Static Front Page.

Template tags: Wp Get Archives.

Hope this helps.

[shiato storm]

fantastic!! thanks for that tintax, thats set me on the right path