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I’m trying to build a homepage that contains pretty much what WordPress.com does in that it will have posts from a variety of different blogs as well as stats information such as e.g. The best of 115,585 bloggers, 143,859 new posts, 262,715 comments, & 37,289,150 words today on WordPress.com.

I’ve looked around, but all I have seen are plugins and widgets, is their a ‘PROPER’ way to get posts from your blogs on the home page, whereby I can control which content goes where, so for example I can choose blog2 and display the last 5 posts from it in a place I desire. Thanks