wordpress - Want to show first 100 characters of recent posts in sidebar then "Read More" -


i'm creating first custom theme on wordpress , trying familiar codex. have "news" section on bottom right of sidebar. want show previews of last 2 posts or so. want show title, date, , first 100 characters or of recent post followed "read more" anchor. idea function can use?

here's 1 way of doing it:

<h2>recent posts</h2> <ul> <?php     $args = array( 'numberposts' => '2' );     $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );     foreach( $recent_posts $recent ){         echo '<li>'.$recent["post_title"].' - '.$recent["post_excerpt"].'<a href="'.get_permalink($recent["id"]).'">read more</a></li>';     } ?> </ul> 

more info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/function_reference/wp_get_recent_posts


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