Linking to list of blog posts with wordpress?

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1. create a new page template file called page-home.php
   best way to do this is copy and paste the code from index.php into your new page…
   inside this page create a new template call..

   <?php
   /**
    Template Name: home
    */
   ?>
   

   inside this page paste your index.php code..

   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
           <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
               <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
               <?php the_content('<p>Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
               <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p>Pages: ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
               <?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
           </div>
           <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   

   this will display your home page as usual, then you have to create a new call to the wordpress database to display your latest posts from which ever categories you want or show all posts from all categories..

   <?php
   
   //The Query
   query_posts('posts_per_page=5&cat=YOUR_CATEGORY_HERE');
   
   //The Loop
   if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
    ..
   endwhile; else:
    ..
   endif;
   
   //Reset Query
   wp_reset_query();    
   ?>
   

   this will then loop through the posts and display your latest posts..

   have a check through the wordpress query posts codex

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