How to list posts from a certain category in the Awake Recent Post widget?

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1. 

   blueciccio
   Member

   I think the question is simple...
   otherwise can someone suggest a way to show recent posts from a single category in the sidebar in the "Awake Recent Post" widget style?
   help very appreciated!
   Thanks in advance

   Posted 11 months ago #
2. 

   Ruderic
   Support

   Hello,

   Go to the theme folder and open the file "lib/functions/widgets.php". In line #392 you will find this code:

   $posts = get_posts("cat=$exclude_blog_cats&numberposts=$number&offset=0");

   Replace "$exclude_blog_cats" with a single number, indicating your desired category ID. For example:

   $posts = get_posts("cat=12&numberposts=$number&offset=0");

   Let me know if you have more questions.

   Posted 11 months ago #
3. 

   blueciccio
   Member

   Thanks!
   works fine.
   Any theme upgrade in the future to choose one or more categories directly from the widget?
   Ciao!

   Posted 11 months ago #
4. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Glad you got it sorted blueciccio. I'll move this to feature requests and we'll take a look at including it in the next update.

   Posted 11 months ago #
5. 

   apbrown25
   Member

   This would be a great feature to have and I think it would benefit quite a few users with this situation!

   I have a customers site that I am working on and they are an investment firm in several different businesses......what I'd like to be able to do is identify each company with a different post category and then call the recent news for that company only in the "Awake - Recent Post" widget on their page.

   If this is possible without adding it to the feature request, I would be interested in knowing how to accomplish it.

   Thanks!

   Posted 11 months ago #
6. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello apbrown25,

   Go ahead and try out Ruderic's quick fix. I moved it to feature requests so we can take a look into adding it to the next update.

   Posted 11 months ago #
7. 

   apbrown25
   Member

   I ended up finding a plugin that does what I was looking for. Here is the link in case in helps anyone else.
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-posts

   Posted 11 months ago #

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