wordpress: display all posts in the sidebar from 1 specific category

[Gert Leroy]

wordpress:
i'm looking for a plugin/widget that displays in the sidebar all the posts from a specific category. Something like the "recent posts" widget, but for a specific category, independent of the date.

thanks !

[incrediblehelp]

I dont understand. So right now certain category pages on your blog has a different sidebar?

[Gert Leroy]

well,
i want to display all the posts from a specific category in the sidebar.

that means: displaying the title of the posts, just like the "recent posts" widget.

i'm asking this because for a certain site i'm using wordpress as a CMS and not as a blog.
SO, instead of having a sidebarwidget that displays all the categories (which is very blog-like) i would like a widget that displays all the titles (clickable off course) of 1 certain category. That would structure my site a lot better.

thanks

[Simrun Media]

Hi Gert,

I'm not sure of a plugin or a widget, but there is WordPress custom code that you can use. For example, the query_posts command. You just query the posts and then set up however you'd like the items displayed. See: Template Tags/query posts « WordPress Codex

Example:

  <?php query_posts('category_name=special_cat&showposts=10'); ?>

  <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>> <?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
  <?php endwhile;?>

This will show the title of each post as the link to the post, for the last 10 posts (each seperated by a line break) in the category named "special_cat."

[Gert Leroy]

thanks,

i have found the perfect plugin/widget here:
WordPress › Category Posts Widget « WordPress Plugins

[Gert Leroy]

thanks Simrun Media !
that query does the job indeed (if you don't use a widget and get inti the code directly)