wordpress - displaying posts in a page

Question

I would like to display the posts the way they are shown when you have "show latest post" selected under reading settings.

I've tried using query_posts, but that displays the whole post, not the chunk that appears in the preview with the link at the bottom.

any ideas what I should be querying to get that?

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Edit I forgot to mention I tried using the_excerpt(), but that doesn't show the image in the post. Also the index.php file is using the the_content() and it's displaying it the way I want it to

Answer 1

If you don't want to show the whole post, you should use the_excerpt() instead of the_post() Edit:
From codex:
<?php the_content('Read more...'); ?> Displays the content of the post and uses "Read more..." for the more link text when the Quicktag is used.

Basically, use the_content('your text for the link') and add the quicktag to your article, this will automatically just show the text before