Magento - How to display blog posts with featured images on magento homepage

- First we need to integrate the fishbig in my magento site.(fishbig used for integrate wordpress with magento).

- When we integrate fishbig with magento we can have one folder "wordpress" in the template folder.(path:- app\design\frontend\base\default\template).

- in that we can create our custom folder like "home". in that we need to create one .phtml file called "slider.phtml".

- the followings code returns the post name, post featured image etc...




<?php $posts = $this->getPosts() 
if (count($posts) > 0): ?>

<?php 
      foreach($posts as $post): ?>
      <?php 

     $image_url = $post->getFeaturedImage()->getFullSizeImage(); //Featured image
          $post_link = $post->getPermalink(); // Post link
          $post_date = $post->getPostDate(); // Post date
          $post_day = date('l', strtotime($post_date)); // Day of Post
          $post_title = $post->getPostTitle(); // Post Title

<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

- Then call this template in home page slide section like,

<div class="home_banner">
  <?php
$magento_block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout');
$blog = $magento_block->createBlock('wordpress/sidebar_widget_posts')->setTemplate('wordpress/home/homeslide.phtml');
$blog->setPostCount(6);
echo $blog->toHtml();
?> 
</div>

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