Title: Adding Custom Script to Default Sidebar
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding Custom Script to Default Sidebar

 *  [a2p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2p/)
 * (@a2p)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-script-to-default-sidebar/)
 * I am using the default(dynamic) sidebar but I want to add a script that pulls
   the five latest post from a particular category in the sidebar, how do I do this
   without creating a custom sidebar from scratch.
 * Thank you.

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 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-script-to-default-sidebar/#post-3970554)
 * Use a [PHP widget](http://wordpress.org/plugins/php-text-widget/) plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [a2p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2p/)
 * (@a2p)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-script-to-default-sidebar/#post-3970562)
 * Thanks, looks like what I need, I’m going to give it a try.
 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-script-to-default-sidebar/#post-3970580)
 * Great! Let us know how you do.
 *  Thread Starter [a2p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2p/)
 * (@a2p)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-script-to-default-sidebar/#post-3970656)
 * I’ve implemented it, it works very fine. THANKS!

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 * Last reply from: [a2p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2p/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-script-to-default-sidebar/#post-3970656)
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