Title: List Recent Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# List Recent Posts

 *  [wrgood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrgood/)
 * (@wrgood)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-recnet-posts/)
 * I am currently trying to design a full wordpress website. I have worked with 
   many themes before and not had any trouble, but i feel i am running into a problem
   with this current layout.
    Normaly when designing a wordpress site, i create 
   the site as a normal html site, then i create a link to the wordpress for “our
   blog”. then i just create a template that matches the rest of the site, and it
   works pretty good. What i am looking to do for this current project is use wordpress
   to create a FULL page. i will create the pages in wordpress and everything will
   be wordpress. the problem i am running into is as follows:
 * I want the front page of site to be one of the Pages i have designed. this works
   perfect and the page displays just as i want. The problem i am having is that
   i like the idea of listing the 5 (or whatever) most recent articles, so i have
   created a button on the top of the page called “our blog”. i want this to link
   to what would normally be the front page (a list of the 5 most recent posts).
   I have looked through the codex and not found this, but i feel like this should
   be very easy to do (just not figuring it out myself). any help or links to articles
   that might cover this is much appreciated.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-recnet-posts/#post-865738)
 * Just using the static front page option offered by WordPress and setting **Blog
   pages show at most** to 5 would seem to get you there.
 * See: [Administration](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels) > [Settings](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Reading)
   > [Reading](http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_SubPanel)
 *  Thread Starter [wrgood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrgood/)
 * (@wrgood)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-recnet-posts/#post-865882)
 * I think i did not state my question clear enough. I want the main page to be 
   a static page. i will just create a page and set it to that. I want to create
   a link that will go to a page that lists the 5 most recent posts. so essentialy
   i would like to use the static frontpage option (but not on the front page). 
   hope that makes sense, if i need to be any clearer please just let me know.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [wrgood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrgood/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-recnet-posts/#post-865882)
 * Status: not resolved

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