Recent posts PHP call in WP sidebars

[AnneT]

Does anyone know the php call for recent posts in Wordpress?

I have this for pages:

<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>

I tried this for posts:

<?php wp_list_posts('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>

Didn't work LOL. It must be there somewhere. Any ideas?

[AnneT]

I should point out, this is for the sidebar template. I've got as far as this now:

get_posts()

Still not working but at least it's a valid call now. Does anyone know the arguments for 10 posts, ordered by date?

[AnneT]

Don't worry - I worked it out For future reference, this should work fine:

<ul>
<?php
$lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=10');
foreach($lastposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

[Eagle]

You could use the Rss widget for that.

[docputer]

Samsarin PHP works great for that

[AnneT]

I wanted to hardcode it for this project. It's good stuff to know anyway