Magento: Add aw blog latest post in home page

Display blog posts to CMS pages :

In app/design/frontend/default/default/template/aw_blog/

Step 1:

Create a new file home_latest_blog.phtml with the following code:

<?php
$posts = Mage::getModel('blog/blog')
            ->getCollection()
            ->addPresentFilter()
            ->addStoreFilter(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
            ->addFieldToFilter('status', 1)
            ->setOrder('created_time ', 'desc')
            ->setPageSize(3);
if(count($posts)):                   
?>
    <h3><?php echo $this->__('BLOG-Latest Posts');?></h3>
    <ul>
    <?php foreach ($posts as $post): ?>
        <li>
            <div class="postContent std"><?php echo $this->helper('cms')->getBlockTemplateProcessor()->filter($post->getShortContent()); ?></div>
            <a href="<?php echo $this->getBaseUrl().'blog/'.$post->getIdentifier(); ?>"><?php echo $post->getTitle(); ?></a>
            (<?php echo $this->formatDate($post->getCreatedTime(), Mage::getStoreConfig('blog/blog/dateformat'), true); ?>)
        </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>    
    <div id="messages_product_view"></div>
<?php endif;?>

If You want to change blog post limit Change in ->setPageSize(3) set your size

Step 2:

Now call home_latest_blog.phtml in cms page Open your cms page -> Edit page -> Click Content tab
And add this

{{block type="core/template" name="homepage.blog" template="aw_blog/home_latest_blog.phtml"}}

and if you want call in any other phtml file:

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('core/template')->setTemplate('aw_blog/home_latest_blog.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>