Title: Show posts from a specific category
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Show posts from a specific category

 *  Resolved [chainznanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunitkaul/)
 * (@sunitkaul)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-posts-from-a-specific-category/)
 * Hi Alex,
 * Is it possible to show posts from a specific category on the sidebar?
 * Thanks

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 *  Theme Author [acosmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acosmin/)
 * (@acosmin)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-posts-from-a-specific-category/#post-5088323)
 * If you are not using the recent posts widget open `..acosmin/widgets/custom-recent-
   posts-widget.php` and bellow
    `'posts_per_page' => $recent_posts_number,` add
   this line:
 * `'cat' => 4,`
 * where 4 represent your category id.
 * After that eneble the recent posts widget

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