Is there anything anyone out there can suggest that might help me out here?

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In control panel open Blog settings > Widgets > Add widget select Post list widget.

Good luck

Hi

b2evolution also comes with a file called summary.php in the root of the installation (your news folder). This file displays the last few posts in all the blogs on the system. Try loading it and see what you get.

It might give you something to play about with when working with the home page of your site.

Cheers
Lee

Thank you very much lturner and sam2kb.

lturner, your suggestion worked like a charm. Just needed to make a copy of the summary.php and do a few tweaks to it to get it to stop showing the blog names, the "summary demo" stuff, and a few more unneeded bits of info.

By any chance do you know of a way to get it to also show some of the post as well?

Hi rasield

Glad that it is working for you :-)

I haven't done this myself but I think this forum post should answer your question:

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=8162

Hope that helps
Lee

Thank you once again. Tried playing around with the modified file a bit using what I read from that thread and got it posting the post as well as the post title. I plan on posting my solution in that thread for those who might be looking to do the same.

Excellent stuff. Well done. Not so much of a near-complete noob after all :-)