Now that I’ve found out how to make a static page my home page I want to be able to display, say, three of the most recent posts on that static page. Any clues on how to do it? I’ve had a search on Wordpress for a ‘sticky‘ plugin, hoping that it’ll simply be like having a sticky post. Alas, no luck 
Also, sorry if I’ve broken anyones rss feeds or links by changing the blog address!
You’ll have to hack about with the PHP a bit, customise a template and then use that as the template for the static page.
I think it’s just a limitation of this (oldish) template on WP, I hacked about for about half an hour and got just about everything I wanted to do to work fine with a bit of elbow grease. (see my Links page for an example of what the template never intended me to do
Good to meet you on Monday dude!
Like Christopher said - set up a template and then use query_post before the loop:
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[LOOP GOES IN HERE]
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more information on other things you can do with query_posts here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
and here:
http://ifelse.co.uk/archives/2005/04/08/query_posts-redux/
ha!
ok, so I’ll email it to you so you can see the php calls!