Wordpress pull Blog Post

Question

I'm designing a theme for wordpress. I need advice on how I would construct it.

At the bottom of my Frontpage/Home I will put a snippets (a title and a short description of blog post) of what is new in my Blog .

Preview:

Question:

What approach should I use? I can make the bottom page widget ready and will just use widget or will use PHP to pull details in my 'blog' page (I dunno how to do it php, a link would be useful)

what is the proper approach? I'm designing it for a client. My concern is If I would make it widget ready, client would have to install the widget. If I would do it on PHP, (I have no resource and idea in doing that )

Thanks!

Answer 1

You'll need to know some PHP and JavaScript if you want to make a WP theme from scratch. Otherwise I would suggest to modify an existing one.

Here is the theme development help from WP.

Answer 2

You'll have to run a loop, in which you'll retrieve the posts from the database (Wordpress handles that) and show them as needed.

The Loop In Action and Building Custom Wordpress Themes

Hope that helps