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Your “blog” page will need to have a custom wordpress loop which queries posts belonging to the “blog” category.

For example:

<ul>
<?php
$blog_query = new WP_Query("cat=18&showposts=3");
$wp_query->in_the_loop = true;
    while ($blog_query->have_posts()) : $blog_query->the_post(); ?>
        <li>
            <span class="date">Posted: <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span>
            <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
            <p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
        </li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

In the above example pay special attention to cat=18&showposts=3 the 18 should be replaced by the category id number of your blog category and you can remove or change the 3 to how many posts you want to show.

Hope that helps.

Aaron

Check out the settings >> permalinks option in your WordPress control panel. Also, make sure your .htaccess file is writabel before updating those settings.

You need to pass your options as an array through a variable to the function:

<?php
$arguments = array('title_li' => '&raquo; My Title', 'link_after' => '&rarr;');
wp_list_pages($arguments);
?>

Hope that helps.

———-
Aaron
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