Use a shortcode to display your posts. Display them by tag, number of posts, order (asc, desc), orderby (date, time created, none, ID, author, title, parent, rand), pagination (pages), and display the results in one column or two.
Intended to be used with object caching (memcache) for maximum efficiency.
[Display Posts tag=’a tag’ pages=’true’ posts=’7′ order=’desc’ orderby=’date’]