Easy WordPress question...

[Sly]

I'm trying to do two different things. I've been looking through the documentation and couldn't find anything, couldn't find the right plug-in either, so here goes...

The "recent posts" feature in the sidebar... apparently it only lists the five most recent posts? I would like to change that. How do I do so?

Second... I turned on permalinks and it seems to be working fine for the most part, but the linked title of each post points to the post ID rather than the actual post title. How do I change this?

Thanks for the assistance. Last week my WordPress questions were answered within minutes. Must be a lot of bloggers around. :-)

[viki]

Go to sidebar.php and find something like this:

<?php get_archives('postbypost', '5', 'custom', '<li>', '</li>'); ?>

And change that 5 to whatever you want.

[thonglife]

This should help on the first one:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/106629

[Jace]

question one:

<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5'); ?>

limit=5 is the amount of posts you want to show

[viki]

Oh and for your second question, can you show the example?

[selena]

Customize your permalink structure for question #2.

Depends on what you want, but on one blog I have

/&#37;year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

[Sly]

Thanks for the help everyone. Got it figured out now.

[CIVMatt]

If you look at my wp site http://www.hardcorepros.com/ I have mine set to /&#37;category%/%postname%/