I'll use blog module for news site. Since we don't have categories like in forum module. I had to create a Blog Holder for each section.

Now, i would like to display from each section latest blog posts on Home Page.

HomePage
|- blog holder 1 (section 1 of news)
|- blog holder 2 (section 2 of news)
....
|- blog holder n (section n of news)

Applying http://www.silverstripe.org/blog-module-forum/show/254124#post254124 or http://www.silverstripe.org/blog-module-forum/show/258365#post258365 i'll get only entries from [blog holder 1].

Any idea to do this ?

THX

this gave me the idea to create a widget to make this possible, I will start on it soon! would be nice to have such a thing ;)

As i wrote about a widget, I create a new widget to achieve this. Welcome to use it.

@Nivanka - I DL'd your widget. Works perfectly.

I used the blog module as just part of a bigger site - how can I get the latest post on the main 'static' homepage?

Any help much appreciated as I'm a complete noob.

I would also like to know if there is a way, when showing multiple latest entries in the widget, to have the newest entry at the top of the list; oldest at the bottom. Currently it's the other way round and I can't seem to find any code governing the order.

For managing latest post of more blog holders you have to create for each holder a function like describe and extend it:

...
$news = DataObject::get_one('BlogHolder', "Title = '<name of blogholder>'")
...

http://silverstripe.org/blog-module-forum/show/261584?start=0#post261590

Ok, I figured out how to swap the order of entries in the widget (newest top, oldest bottom), but despite setting it to show the 6 latest entries in the cms, all entries appear in the widget ie. more than 6.

Can anyone assist?

Here is the code:

<?php

// LatestBlogPost Widget 0.0.1 for the SilverStripe Blog Module
// 07.06.2009
// By nivanka@whynotonline.com
// Save this and LatestBlogPost.ss to widget_latestblogpost/ and run "db/build".

class LatestBlogPost extends Widget{

	static $title = "Latest News";
	static $cmsTitle = "Latest News";
	static $description = "With this plugin you can show up the latest blog post from any blog set up on your website.";

	static $db = array(
		"Blog" => "Int",
		"NumberOfPosts" => "Int",
	);


	//get the wanted data from the user
	function getCMSFields(){
		
		$blogs = DataObject::get('BlogHolder');
		$blogsDD = array();
		foreach($blogs as $blog)		
			$blogsDD[$blog->ID] = $blog->Title;

		return new FieldSet(
			new DropdownField("Blog", "Select a Blog", $blogsDD, $this->Blog ),
			new NumericField("NumberOfPosts", "Number of Posts")	
		);

	}

	//get the blog posts as the parameters provided
	function blogPosts(){
		$posts = DataObject::get('BlogEntry', 'ParentID = ' . $this->Blog, 'Date DESC', $this->numberOfPosts);
		return $posts;
	}

}

?>

so do you want to show all the posts?

if so, edit the code like this

 //get the blog posts as the parameters provided
   function blogPosts(){
      $posts = DataObject::get('BlogEntry', 'ParentID = ' . $this->Blog, 'Date DESC');
      return $posts;
   }