Need a code to show posts of a category on wordpress sidebar

Hello
i need a code to display latest posts of a specific category on the sidebar of a wordpress blog.
please help

 

I have seen several widgets like this that will show post from all categories. I am sure you could tweak the code to show just one category.

 

i tried many widgets, none worked

 

Have you tried this?
James Lao's Category Posts Widget

I don't know of one template tag that will do that, so you will probably need to add a block of code to the sidebar, like this:

<ul>
   <?php
      $catposts = get_posts('numberposts=NUMPOSTS&category_name=CATEGORY');
      foreach($catposts as $post) :
   ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul> 

Code (markup):

Change NUMPOSTS to the number of posts to list (eg. numberposts=5). It will get the latest posts by default.

Change CATEGORY to the category stub text (eg. category_name=wordpress). If you want to use a category number, change category_name to category (eg. category=2)

 

THANK YOU.
Even if the original writer never responds -- this is EXACTLY what I needed.
I, too, had tried widgets, and they weren't working in my particular scenario.

This is perfect.
Thanks Cash Nebula.

 

Hey, you're welcome
I'm glad someone finally found it useful.

 

Now there is an exciting piece of code. I did not know that function existed and queried the database the "old fashioned way" [direct php/sql] to get the same results. Thanks.

Q...

 

excellent ....its working awesome..Thanks for ur contribution

 

The category number function is not working for me. Any guesses

 

Try this

in the above code 15 is the number of posts and 6 are the category numbers .

Replace it with ur own and if u want to include multiple categories in the side bar just add cat num followed by comma ( for ex : 6,7,8)

 

Working great...thx for the code