Add blogroll to static front page

[adriennesuarez 0]

Hello! I'm trying to add a blogroll to my static front page. I want the blogroll to show excerpts from my four or five most recent posts. The site I'm developing is http://www.hope4washington.com. I want to blogroll to go in the empty section in the bottom of the front page. What's the best way to do this? Thanks so much! Adrienne

[Stefan 6]

Hey Adrienne, You could set up a section like Enrique's Latest Blog Entries - http://www.pagelines.com/store/sections/latest-blog-entries/ Would that do the trick?

[slingr 0]

Adrienne, I use a plugin called TPG GET POST. It uses short codes to control categories of posts to display, length of excerpts, number of posts. It's pretty flexible.

[Danny+ 1,327]

@adriennesuarez Have you tried Slingr's suggestion ?

[adriennesuarez 0]

Thanks for your help! I think I'm going to buy the latest blog entries plug-in that Stefan recommended, Thanks again! Adrienne

[Rob 547]

Adrienne, you may also wish to try Special Recent Posts, which has both a free or premium version. I use that and it works very well.

[adriennesuarez 0]

Rangelone, do you have a link to that plugin? I went to the plugin store and can't find a way to search all the plugins and didn't see it in the most recent section. Thanks! Adrienne

[catrina 103]

The plugin is a non-PageLines plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/special-recent-posts/

[adriennesuarez 0]

Thanks! Thanks exactly what I was looking for.

[catrina 103]

I'm glad. Please click the "Thanks" button in my helpful post so that this thread is closed out.