diff --git a/layouts/partials/sidebar.html b/layouts/partials/sidebar.html
index 3279d609b46ac8eac1859f94bd1604071d5739a1..dc2cca4d9788a8827b2c07f5abbdde5b82fa7b6d 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/sidebar.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/sidebar.html
@@ -38,6 +38,36 @@
       {{ end }}<!--StatBanner-->
     {{ end }}<!--range-->
 
+
+   <!--<h3>recent post</h3>-->
+    {{ with $.Site.GetPage $dir }}
+      {{ range first $maxnum .Pages.ByDate.Reverse }}
+        {{$StatBanner := and (eq .Params.mkbanner false) (le now .Params.bannerEndDate) }}
+        {{ if eq $StatBanner true }}
+        {{ $.Scratch.Set "counter" (add ($.Scratch.Get "counter") 1) }}
+          {{ if le ($.Scratch.Get "counter") $maxnum }} 
+            {{ if .Params.bannerimg }} 
+              <div class="topic imgsize" onKeyPress="return true" onClick="link('{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .RelPermalink }}')">
+                <img src="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .Params.bannerimg }}">
+              </div>
+            {{ else if .Params.image }} 
+              <div class="topic bannersize" onKeyPress="return true" onClick="link('{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .RelPermalink }}')" style="background-image: url({{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .Params.image }});" >
+                <div class="title"> <h2> {{ .Title }} </h2> </div><br>
+                <div class="date"> Posted on {{dateFormat "2 Jan, 2006" .Params.date }}   </div>
+              </div>
+
+            {{ else }}
+               <div class="topic bannersize" onKeyPress="return true" onClick="link('{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .RelPermalink }}')" style="background-image: url({{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .Site.Params.defaultBannerImage }});" >
+                <div class="title"> <h2> {{ .Title }} </h2> </div><br>
+                 <div class="date"> Posted on {{dateFormat "2 Jan, 2006" .Params.date }}   </div>
+               </div>
+            {{ end }} <!--bannerimg-->
+          {{ end }} <!--num of banner-->
+        {{ end }}<!--exclude StatBanner-->
+      {{ end }}<!--range ByDate.Reverse-->
+    {{ end }}<!--from post-->
+
+
   <script src="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}js/topic.js"></script>
   </div> <!-- topic_list -->
 </div> <!-- sidebar -->