Single post page from static home not working

Question

I'm struggling with displaying a single post page.

I have the following code on the static front page:

<?php
                $args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'order'=> 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'date' );
                $postslist = get_posts( $args );
                foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?> 
                    <div class="single_post">

                        <h3><?php the_date(); ?></h3>

                        <h3>
                            <a href="<?php get_permalink();?>">
                                <?php the_title(); ?>   
                            </a>
                        </h3>
                        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                    </div>
            <?php endforeach; ?>

That fetches latest posts.

I'm trying to understand how single post page works by copying it from twentytwelve wp theme folder but for some reason it doesn't work. I would really appreciate any help in pointing directions i should follow to make single.php work.

Thank you.

Answer 1

See the change of get_permalink to the_permalink

This might work for you.

<?php
                $args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'order'=> 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'date' );
                $postslist = get_posts( $args );
                foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?> 
                    <div class="single_post">

                        <h3><?php the_date(); ?></h3>

                        <h3>
                            <a href="<?php the_permalink();?>">
                                <?php the_title(); ?>   
                            </a>
                        </h3>
                        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                    </div>
            <?php endforeach; ?>