showcase - recent

                <section class="recent-posts">
                    <h1 class="showcase-heading"><?php _e( 'Recent Posts', 'twentyeleven' ); ?></h1>

                    <?php

                    // Display our recent posts, showing full content for the very latest, ignoring Aside posts.
                    $recent_args = array(
                        'order' => 'DESC',
                        'post__not_in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' ),
                        'tax_query' => array(
                            array(
                                'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
                                'terms' => array( 'post-format-aside', 'post-format-link', 'post-format-quote', 'post-format-status' ),
                                'field' => 'slug',
                                'operator' => 'NOT IN',
                            ),
                        ),
                        'no_found_rows' => true,
                    );

                    // Our new query for the Recent Posts section.
                    $recent = new WP_Query( $recent_args );

                    // The first Recent post is displayed normally
                    if ( $recent->have_posts() ) : $recent->the_post();

                        // Set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post.
                        global $more;
                        $more = 0;

                        get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );

                        echo '<ol class="other-recent-posts">';

                    endif;

                    // For all other recent posts, just display the title and comment status.
                    while ( $recent->have_posts() ) : $recent->the_post(); ?>

                        <li class="entry-title">
                            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
                            <span class="comments-link">
                                <?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Leave a reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', __( '<b>1</b> Reply', 'twentyeleven' ), __( '<b>%</b> Replies', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>
                            </span>
                        </li>

                    <?php
                    endwhile;

                    // If we had some posts, close the <ol>
                    if ( $recent->post_count > 0 )
                        echo '</ol>';
                    ?>
                </section><!-- .recent-posts -->