title: Show x recent posts on Wordpress with title, date and excerpt
body: <p>I'm looking to find a way to show the last 5 posts on the homepage of my Wordpress website, so i assume i will need to utilise shortcodes to do this, however i cannot find any pre-existing code to add to functions.php that will show the title, date and post excerpt.</p>
  
  <p>Could someone possibly help me with this?</p>