How to make link to recent post?

Trying to link with…what? Your post got mangled.

I tried to do it with
“>

but it goes to the oldest instead of the last.

thanks

weird, it deleted it again!
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"></a>

This depends a lot on what’s already happening on the page, if there’s a Loop or not and if you want to do it inside that loop or later. the_permalink just fetches the permalink for whatever post is being processed, and if you have a Loop that processes a number of posts, the_permalink points to that last post, not the first.

You want to use get_permalink() to fetch the permalink of your first post and then display it. For that to work, you need to figure out the post_id of that first post, of course.
You could also do a Loop that does a query_posts with “showposts=1” and then run the_permalink().

Really depends on what the page is doing/trying to do, need more information. This codex entry has a lot of information on how to do single and multiple Loops on a page.