Help with a blog technical prob..!

Hi guys..

I am using a wordpress blog.. I am unable to find a feature, that could show a small summary of the recent 3-4 blog posts on the homepage, and keeps itself updated by the posts made date wise..like it happens with the news sites..small snipett on homepage, then click to read on full story links.., and shows the full story when clicked on it.

Once a new post is made, it should come up on the homepage automatically in the summary form..with a option >>> read more..

Is there anything of this available with wordpress? Or any other software..? Or with some plugin.. ?

Anyone who knows how to do this .. please help..

Thanks in advance..

Place this line of code in your side bar
<?php get_archives('postbypost', 10); ?>

Change the number from 10 to how much posts you need to view

Thanks for the response first of all..

Ahh.. I am getting your point.. But do I have to use that on my homepage where the lines are to fetched? Actually the homepage is index.html and not php.. so i guess it will not parse the php script?

If I am wrong, Please guide the steps precisely..

And yes the case is like this..

Domain : www.mydomain.com (Homepage)
Blog URL: www.domain.com/blog/

What I want is recent blog entries should appear in a small coloum on the homepage with one line summary each and a read more link, that gets updated when ever a new post is made..

I guess now the situation is more clear..?

Suggestions are most welcome..

Regards

Yes it is
You still can use PHP within HTML using JavaScript inclusion, any way that code will not work out side word press directory
The best way to do it is using a kind of RSS reader to read the latest posts from your RSS, you can find some wordpress plug in to do that for you, I have already customized on for one of my sites but I need time to extract the code the send it to you, if you couldnt find it through research tell me

Do you want this in the sidebar or on the actual home page? At my blog my blog posts come up with summaries and when clicked you get the full article. This is done in the WordPress htm editor. There is a little button that allows you to put a breaker in between the summary and the full article. The options in WP allow you to specify how many posts to show on the home page.
If that isn't what you wanted forgive me

Yeah Visio Thanks FOA.. Want it on the actual homepage..not on the blog sidebar..

Wisam if you could spare out time, and send that plug-in link or the code, I will be very thankful to you.. I can research on that one, but i dont actually know what to search for

Thanks both for the info.. I will be glad if you could point out some nice solution to that one..

Regards

its easy, all you need to do is grab the feed of your site, use any RSS to JS converter - > convert the feed to a JS ( in this phase you can set the number of characters you want to be displayed from each post) and add it to your home page . It will keep updating automatically.

there are many such feed converters , you can try this one http://www.freetipsandwits.com/feed/build.php

keep it posted if you still face any problem.

Would that provide static links to the blog URL's from homepage or java script links?

Hi Wisam..

That code did the job..I will take care of the formatting.. thanks a lot for the awesome help man..

Regards
LKS