WordPress static pages are not supposed to show dynamic stuff. But, sometimes, you want them to anyway.  Here’s a plugin that does just that. This plugin adds the ability to put a tag in your page entry and have it display a list of posts using the get_posts template tag.

By default it will show the 10 most recent posts ordered in reverse date order, but it will accept any of the options provided by the get_posts template tag.  To use it, just put the following into the HTML of any page or post, use as many times as you like
on the same page:

  [get_posts]

This default usage will return the last 10 posts in reverse chronological order. Along with all the options provided by the get_posts template tag, it will also accept one additional option:

ul_class: This is the class assigned to the bullet list. Default of “get_posts_class”.

An example with a few options:

  [get_posts tag="my favorite tag" numberposts=5 orderby="title]

Shows 5 posts with the tag “my favorite tag” ordered by title.

There are quite a few more options … check the wordpress.org extensions page for more detailed documentation on all the options.

Download the plugin here, and please let us know with a comment if you have any suggestions, comments, requests or questions.  And, if you like it, hit the plugin page and give it a nice rating