Title: Using the "recent posts" widget
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Using the "recent posts" widget

 *  [Jendhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jendhi/)
 * (@jendhi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-recent-posts-widget/)
 * I am using the theme Twenty Twelve and I have activated the widget “recent posts”
   on my main sidebar however, when I hover over one of the posts that is listed
   and the little hand with one finger up icon appears, I click on the post then
   receive the message “well this is somewhat embarrassing, it seems we can’t find
   what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help”.
 * As I’m new to wordpress (and website development in general), I’m guessing that
   I’m missing a step.
 * How do I link my posts to the widget? I’m trying to make it so that one post 
   appears on my front page (I do not have the “static page” option set) and then
   on the sidebar is the list of past posts and people can click on whatever post
   they want in order to read it…so they don’t have to search through each post 
   and so I don’t have to clog up my front page with all my posts.
 * Thanks

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 *  [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/)
 * (@mindctrl)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-recent-posts-widget/#post-6077766)
 * Hi,
 * If you go to Settings > Permalinks, select Default, and click Save Changes, does
   it work?
 *  Thread Starter [Jendhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jendhi/)
 * (@jendhi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-recent-posts-widget/#post-6077788)
 * Oh wow, yes, that did the trick – you’re a legend!! Thanks so much!

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