changing query for hp featured

[David Neale]

Hi All,

Having fun working with the Lifestyle theme, very nice.

Currently the home page featured boxes on the home page query the database for the latest posts in a particlular category. This can be modified in the Lifestyle admin.

I'd like a box to look just like that, including the 70px thumbnails etc. but I'd like it to display the last 5 posts period, no filtering by category.

Currently the code to display the posts by category look like so;

<div class="hpfeatured">
			<?php $feature_cat_1 = get_option('lifestyle_feature_cat_1'); $feature_cat_1_num = get_option('lifestyle_feature_cat_1_num'); if(!$feature_cat_1) $feature_cat_1 = 1; //setting a default ?>
						
				<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".$feature_cat_1."&showposts=".$feature_cat_1_num); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
				<?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true) ): ?>
				    [img]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, [/img]" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
				<?php else: ?>
				<?php endif; ?>				
				<?php the_title(); ?>
				<?php the_content_limit(80, ""); ?>
				
				<div style="border-bottom:1px dotted #94B1DF; margin-bottom:10px; padding:0px 0px 10px 0px; clear:both;"></div>
		
				<?php endwhile; ?>								
</div>

Could somebody post the code I would use to display the same way but with lates posts only in reverse date order?

Thanks.
David