Title: Category-specific sidebar
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Category-specific sidebar

 *  Resolved [Darren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cutout/)
 * (@cutout)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-specific-sidebar-1/)
 * This will hopefully be simple — in the sidebar of each single-post page, I want
   a box which says, “More from this category” and lists the last 5 relevant headlines
   from whatever category you’re in. I realize I can specify an ID and do it like
   this:
 *     ```
       <?php if ( is_single() || in_category('3') ) : ?>
       <li>
       <h2>More in this Section</h2>
       <ul class="bullets">
       <?php
       $posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&category=3');
       foreach($posts as $post) :
       ?>
       <li>
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
       </li>
       <?php endforeach; ?>
       </ul>
       </li>
       <?php endif ; ?>
       ```
   
 * But, I don’t want to manually type in the ID# for each. How can I use the code
   above and make it more dynamic?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-specific-sidebar-1/#post-658689)
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( is_single() ) :
       global $post;
       $category = get_the_category();
       ?>
       <li><h2>More in this Section</h2>
       <ul class="bullets">
       <?php
       $posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&category='. $category[0]->term_id);
       foreach($posts as $post) :
       ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       <?php endforeach; ?>
       </ul>
       </li>
       <?php endif ; ?>
       ```
   
 * This collects all categories a post is assigned to and passes the category ID#
   of the first category (`$category[0]->term_id`) as the value for the get_posts()‘
   category’ parameter.
 * (Using WordPress <= 2.2.x, change `$category[0]->term_id`
    to `$category[0]->
   cat_ID`)
 * Also, for multiple categories (because someone *will* ask):
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( is_single() ) :
       global $post;
       $categories = get_the_category();
       foreach ($categories as $category) :
       ?>
       <li><h2>More in <?php echo $category->name; ?></h2>
       <ul class="bullets">
       <?php
       $posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category='. $category->term_id);
       foreach($posts as $post) :
       ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       <?php endforeach; ?>
       </ul>
       </li>
       <?php endforeach; endif ; ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Darren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cutout/)
 * (@cutout)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-specific-sidebar-1/#post-658773)
 * Brilliant, Kafkaesqui, thank you! I will test that code tonight.
 *  [schikowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schikowski/)
 * (@schikowski)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-specific-sidebar-1/#post-659078)
 * Kafkaesqui,
    You rock. Thank you.

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 * Last reply from: [schikowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schikowski/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-specific-sidebar-1/#post-659078)
 * Status: resolved

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