I’d love help adding “recent posts list” to flat html page!

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  juliansnail · Member · May 21, 2010 at 4:51 pm

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  I would like to show a list of “recent posts” from a WordPress.com blog. But I want the “recent posts” list to show up on a flat HTML page.

  To be more clear…
  – There is a WordPress.com blog
  – There is also a flat HTML website
  – I would like to show the “recent posts” for the WordPress blog on the homepage of the flat HTML website.

  Is there is a way to do this?
  Should this be done using an iframe or an RSS feed?
  Ideally I can keep the flat website flat rather than converting it to WordPress.

  Any pointer to docs that talk about what to do would be great.

  Thanks a lot for any pointers, advice, or thoughts you can spare!!!!

  With joy,
  -julian

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  supportbot · Member · May 21, 2010 at 4:51 pm

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2010 at 6:08 pm

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  I would like to show the “recent posts” for the WordPress blog on the homepage of the flat HTML website.

  To get help with your website please post to this forum as this is not a wordpress.COM issue > http://wordpress.ORG/support/

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  juliansnail · Member · May 21, 2010 at 7:16 pm

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  Hi timethief.

  The WordPress.org folks specifically sent me to WordPress.COM It’s a wp.com issue because wp.com would ideally have a “here’s how it’s done with wp.com”.

  The WordPress.org post can be found here…
  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/401299?#post-1523607

  I would have thought this would have been a fairly common thing to want. Am I wrong?

  Thanks!
  -julian

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2010 at 7:43 pm

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  Is your website a wordpress.ORG install or not?

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2010 at 7:44 pm

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  What is the URL for the website?

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  juliansnail · Member · May 21, 2010 at 7:56 pm

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  Thanks for asking timetheif. I should have listed that initially.

  I’m hoping to do with for a friend/client. Her site is http://marcyswenson.wordpress.com

  The site I’m making is just a flat html site which ideally will show her top blog posts.

  Goodness,
  -julian

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2010 at 8:10 pm

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  The feed for posts is http://marcyswenson.wordpress.com/feed/
  The feed for comments is http://marcyswenson.wordpress.com/comments/feed/

  Setting up the ability to draw the feeds onto the “website” which you have not provided the link to is not a wordpress.COM issue.

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  juliansnail · Member · May 21, 2010 at 8:25 pm

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  That all makes sense timethief. Maybe there’s a third party that can take a wordpress feed and make it into a widget that I can insert via an iframe or the like. I’ll start googling for that now.

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  juliansnail · Member · May 21, 2010 at 8:38 pm

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  It looks like http://www.rssinclude.com is working for me. This is very cool. I’ll be poking more, but I think I’m good now. Thanks so much for the direction and advice timethief!!!!!

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2010 at 9:11 pm

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  Thanks for posting how your resolved this and best wishes to you and Marcy too. :)

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  juliansnail · Member · May 21, 2010 at 11:43 pm

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  It’s working wonderfully. Again, you totally rock timethief!

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2010 at 11:58 pm

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  “Resolved”.