creating WP “pages” locally?

[rwchampin]

so as most of you know by my hundreds of WP related forum posts im new to wp lol….im working locally and have everything set up for the most part…. the last thing is that i want to have a blog page of just recent blog entries……is it possible to create a WP “page” locally or do i have to do it in the dashboard the traditional way? and if i can create a page locally how does wp recognize that its a page and not just a php file?

[pixelgrid]

you have to include a comment to the top of the php file with the template name.

Template Name: My blog posts.

then you will have to create a new page to the wp dashboard and chose as a page template the one you created.
this selection is made in a widget placed to the right.

[Alen]

In your dashboard go to:

Pages >> Create Page >> Name it “Recent” >> Then in your theme folder create `page-recent.php` put your (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_recent_posts) in this file. [code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_recent_posts) in this file.

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