How do I display the next 3 posts in the sidebar?

Question

I'm building a simple "company news/press release" site. We'd like to display the latest five post excerpts on the home page with the next three post titles (six through eight) and a single "Archives" button that takes the visitor to a new page that displays the sixth post and earlier.

I have the five post experts showing, but I can't get the other two things. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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UPDATE: Thanks, t-p, for the tip, but we need only the next three posts in the sidebar, not a duplicate of the first five and then the next three. In order words, the latest five will appear on the home page (already done) and posts 6 through 8 will appear in the sidebar only. Then, we want a link/button to take the visitor to a Archives page.

Answer 1

$args  = array( 'numberposts' => 3, 'offset' => 5 );
$posts = get_posts( $args );

foreach( $posts as $post ){

  setup_postdata( $post );

  [output the post here with the_title(), the_content(), etc]

}

If you search in the codex with 'query posts', you will find a lot.