Title: Display posts in sidebar
Last modified: December 22, 2020

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# Display posts in sidebar

 *  Resolved [AlternativePhotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alternativephotography/)
 * (@alternativephotography)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-in-sidebar/)
 * I’m trying to use Post Grid to display the 8 latest posts from a category in 
   the sidebar. (Using free version).
    I create a layout but can’t paste the shortcode
   into a widget (neither text nor custom HTML) it doesn’t display the thumbnails.
   I would like to display them as a list, but the only widgets I can see are “Post
   Grid 1”, “Posts Grid 2” and “Posts Grid 3” all of which not are lists. So, how
   do I create a list that will display in the sidebar? (The ones showing now is
   from the standard wp selection of widgets) I really appreciate help. 🙂
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [AlternativePhotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alternativephotography/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdisplay-posts-in-sidebar%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [PickPlugins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pickplugins/)
 * (@pickplugins)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-in-sidebar/#post-13833060)
 * Hi, you need to go to layout editor to build list type templates. but sorry to
   say you can display as ul > li tags, if you please send me a demo of your previews
   I could confirm you if this is possible or not.
 *  Thread Starter [AlternativePhotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alternativephotography/)
 * (@alternativephotography)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-in-sidebar/#post-13847203)
 * Hi,
    Thank you, here is the page I’m trying to add in the sidebar. [https://www.alternativephotography.com/gallery/](https://www.alternativephotography.com/gallery/)
   The issue is that when I paste the code into a widget, it crashes. I don’t think
   you can add anything with .PHP to the widget. Is there a way around this?
 *  Plugin Author [PickPlugins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pickplugins/)
 * (@pickplugins)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-in-sidebar/#post-13848330)
 * Not sure which code you pasted on widget, normal shortcode `[post_grid id="123"]`
   should work with text widgets.
 *  Thread Starter [AlternativePhotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alternativephotography/)
 * (@alternativephotography)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-in-sidebar/#post-13848682)
 * Ok, thank you, I’ll try again. 🙂

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 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)

 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [AlternativePhotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alternativephotography/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-in-sidebar/#post-13848682)
 * Status: resolved