Until now I used the NP_LatestPosts. In a forum discussion how to get such a list, ketsugi posted a much more elegant solution without using any plugin at all but just standard features. I must admit, that at first I didn't understand how he'd wanted to get such a list just using the blog command, but later he explained in more detail:
For instance, my plain/recent template looks like this:
Item body:<li><a href="<%FancierURL%>" title="<%title%>"><%title%></a></li>
Skin (sidebar.inc):<h1>Recent Posts</h1>
<ul class="submenu">
<%blog(plain/recent,10)%>
</ul>
And that's it. So you can see that calling this template will display my most recent blog posts as links in a list. And of course you can customise the template to show as much or as little information as you want.
That means now I have one plugin less to look after… Thanks for this nice tip. ;-)
You're most welcome ;D