Most Recent Post with Snippet

Most Recent Post.php

<?php
// include trailing slash
$path_to_wordpress_folder = '../wordpress/';
/*
Does someone have a WP plug-in or snippet so that the most recent post on WP
can be seen on a different php page? In this case the homepage.
 
I'd actually just like a snippet to be seen, not the whole post.
*/
// Learn to use http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
require_once($path_to_wordpress_folder . 'wp-config.php');
$postslist = get_posts('numberposts=1');
foreach ($postslist as $post) : 
  setup_postdata($post);
?> 
<div>
 <?php the_date(); ?>
 <br />
 <?php the_title(); ?>   
 <br />
 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
 </div>
<?php endforeach; ?>