Title: “Recent posts in [category]”
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# “Recent posts in [category]”

 *  [simoncrowley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simoncrowley/)
 * (@simoncrowley)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-in-category/)
 * In my current blog template, `if (is_single())` the sidebar displays a list of“
   Recent posts”: the last five things I’ve posted to my blog. What I’d like to 
   have is a list of the last five posts in whatever category the post being viewed
   is in.
 * For example, when viewing a post about music, the “Recent posts” list would display
   the last five posts in the “music” category, preferably headed with “Recent posts
   in music”. Ideally, this wouldn’t break if posts are in multiple categories; 
   in a perfect, shiny world, it would display a list for each category.
 * Any pointers?

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 *  Thread Starter [simoncrowley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simoncrowley/)
 * (@simoncrowley)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-in-category/#post-270936)
 * Nobody?
 *  [Monika](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monika/)
 * (@monika)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-in-category/#post-270937)
 * no … not today
 * since two weeks or more we discuss this problem at wordpress.de if we figure 
   out this, be shure we would like to tell this the whole wild world
    😉
 * kindly regards
    Monika

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