Title: Recent posts loop
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Recent posts loop

 *  [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-loop-1/)
 * Hi
 * For some reasons I can’t get my theme to display my latest posts correctly, so
   I figure I’d do a page with my latest posts.
    I found this code to create a loop
   to do so, but it returns an empty page. What else should I do apart from creating
   a new page template with that loop inside? Thanks
 *     ```
       <h3>Recent Articles</h3>
       <ul>
       <?php
           $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
           $recentPosts->query('showposts=5');
       ?>
       <?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>
           <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-loop-1/page/2/#post-1338409)
 * Well this took toooooo long so I just used my brain and made a category-page 
   with January 2010 and it’ll serve as my latest posts page for the time being 
   and will force me to update it once a month.

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