Hi,

I am trying to display a list of recent posts on the Blog page. I have found some code examples that work on other pages but return zero results on the blog page itself.

I tried installing the widgets extension but that broke my admin panel.

What is the correct place for the RecentPosts function.

Thanks
Toby

I solved this by adding the following 'RecentNews' function into my code/page.php file

	class Page extends SiteTree
	{
		private static $db = array();

		private static $has_one = array();
	}

	class Page_Controller extends ContentController
	{
		private static $allowed_actions = array(

			'RecentNews'
		);

		public function init()
		{
			parent::init();

		}

		function HomePage()
		{
			return HomePage::get()->limit(1)->first();
		}

		function ContactPage()
		{
			return ContactPage::get()->limit(1)->first();
		}

		public function RecentNews()
		{
			return BlogPost::get()
				->sort('PublishDate', 'DESC')
				->limit(5);
		}

	}

Then called it with the following in the BlogSideBar.ss file

<div class='blog-sidebar typography unit size1of4 lastUnit'>
	<h3>Recent News</h3>
	
<% if $RecentNews %>

	<% loop $RecentNews %>
		
		<div class='archived-article'>
			<p class='date-cat'>
				DATE $PublishDate.format('d.m.Y') /
				<span class="cat-name">
					<% if $Categories %>
						<% loop $Categories %>
							$Title
						<% end_loop %>
					<% end_if %>
				</span>
			</p>
			<h4>$Title</h4>
			<% if $Summary %>
				<p>$Summary</p>
			<% else %>
				<p>$Excerpt.FirstSentence</p>
			<% end_if %>
			<a href='$Link' class='read-more'>
				Read More
			</a>
		</div>

	<% end_loop %>

<% else %>
	
	<p>No recent articles.</p>
	
<% end_if %>

</div>

With that you will be able to put recent blog posts on any page on your site.

Hope this helps someone out.

Cheers
TobyC