Wordpress

If there is only one thing you need to understand about Wordpress, it is...

The Wordpress Loop

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Example #1
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Here is an example that shows the recent 15 posts. You can customise it further for different things, like make it a specific post, or exclude certain categories.

See more on query_post here.