# Displaying Recent Articles **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [November 8, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827 "2010-11-08T21:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![okkezSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/85f322/32.png) [@okkezSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/okkezSS)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/1 "2010-11-08T21:30:40Z")
Does anyone know of an extension that will allow me to automatically display recent articles with a title and a small excerpt? ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/2 "2010-11-08T21:42:01Z")
It’s built in. \ - This is off the top of my head so I’m not 100% sure that will work. But it’s close. ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/3 "2010-11-08T23:22:06Z")
Thanks Joel, I had no idea that was in there! The code you sent me provides a list of links, is there anyway to format it so that it shows a small excerpt for each link, and keeps the site formatting styles (header1,2 etc.)? Basically so it would look like this: [http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3228/screenshot20101108at191.jpg](http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3228/screenshot20101108at191.jpg) Any pointers would be greatly appreciated ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/4 "2010-11-09T00:34:13Z")
Use a page part and call that if you want to choose the excerpt or you can use truncate [GitHub - saturnflyer/radiant-truncate-extension: Adds truncate tag to Radiant for truncating data within the tag.](https://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-truncate-extension) to take the first X characters from the article and, well, truncate them. – Rachel ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/5 "2010-11-08T23:31:31Z")
You should probably look at some documentation. For starters: > **[Radius Tags](https://github.com/radiant/radiant/wiki/Radius-Tags)** > > Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams. - radiant/radiant [http://radiantcms.org/blog/archives/2006/05/11/tag-primer/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/archives/2006/05/11/tag-primer/) And my example was based on the assumption you had a page part for all your articles/posts called “excerpt”. If you don’t have one you’ll either have to add one or maybe use something like a text expander plugin of some sort (example: [http://plugins.learningjquery.com/expander/](http://plugins.learningjquery.com/expander/)) Good luck! - Joel ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/6 "2010-11-09T02:06:12Z")
Either make sure that only pages you want pulled in are under the url you’re pointing at (why is your contact us page under /articles ?) or look into featured pages [GitHub - saturnflyer/radiant-featured\_pages-extension: Adds the ability to feature pages in Radiant and list them without regard to their place in the page hierarchy](https://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-featured_pages-extension) to select particular pages for display only. – Rachel ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/7 "2010-11-09T01:04:56Z")
Sweet, thanks Rachel, I’ll definitely check out that extension. So far I’ve gotten the following code to do what I want: \ - ### Read this article What would I need to add to this so that Radiant only pulls pages that have excerpts (to stop it pulling things like “contact us” pages or menu pages etc.? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/8 "2010-11-09T13:47:41Z")
Sweet, thanks guys for all your help! I got lots to read up on now 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@obi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/obi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-recent-articles/198827/9 "2010-11-09T03:24:00Z")
I’m about to announce a re-release of featured\_pages, but that’s not what you want here. I’m not sure why you have a ‘contact us’ page under articles, but you might have your reasons. Using featured\_pages would require a lot of manual labor. What you want is for it to be automatic. Just use the \ or \ tags. You can do something like this: \ - The wiki has a lot of great content