I present to you, my Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin. This isn’t my first WordPress plugin by any means, but it is the first one I’ve released to the public. This one actually arose from my most recent project, nukoda.com, where I needed to display the most recent posts from a category in the sidebar. I went searching around for an existing solution, but didn’t find one that suited my tastes. I wanted a simple widget, that allowed me to:

• Specify how many posts to show
• Set which category the posts should come form
• Designate how many of the widgets I needed

My search didn’t yield anything that fit my criteria and my criteria only so I ended up creating one. The documentation for creating a widget with dialogs and controls is not very good and almost nonexistent so it took me a couple days of hacking to figure it out, but here it is.

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