Someone emailed and told me that they liked the Recent Posts feature on my blog homepage and would like to know how I did it. Well, it is actually very simple, there is no plugin or widget - all you need to do is add the following snippet to index.php of your WordPress Theme. <\/p>\n
Someone emailed and told me that they liked the Recent Posts feature on my blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"yoast_head":"\n<?php if (is_home() || is_front_page()) : ?>
\n<?php query_posts('showposts=10'); ?>
\n<div class="recent">
\n<h2>Recent Posts<\/h2>
\n<dl>
\n<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
\n<dt><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?><\/a><\/dt>
\n<dd>Posted under <?php the_category(', ') ?> on <?php the_time('F j, Y') ?><\/dd>
\n<?php endwhile;?>
\n<\/dl>
\n<\/div>
\n<?php endif; ?><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"