Title: Articles
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Articles

 *  [seraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seraph/)
 * (@seraph)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articles/)
 * Is there a way to display the last say .. 5 posts or so in a specific category?
   I wish to have a menu titled ‘Recent Articles’ 🙂
    I think you get the idea. 
   Thanks.

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 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articles/#post-27201)
 * You know, it’s interesting — I couldn’t find that myself. You can get the latest
   overall posts with:
    <?php get_archives(‘postbypost’, 5); ?> But, get_archives
   doesn’t have an optional Category (or Categories-list) argument. That wouldn’t
   be too hard to add to the sql-query. The posbypost query actually does: AND post_category
   > 0 .. which would be pretty easy to change to AND post_category = $justShowCategoryID
   or something like that. But, you’d really want to have it be a separated query,
   maybe called ‘postbycat’, and if you ask for postbycat and don’t supply a catID,
   it’d drop to just returning postbypost instead. Hmmm… sounds like time for a 
   CHAITHACK! 🙂 =d
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articles/#post-27207)
 * Okay, I broke down and did it. 😉
    If you check [http://www.chait.net](http://www.chait.net),
   and go to any category page, the ‘latest posts’ list is followed by ‘latest in[
   category]’ list. I made minor changes to b2template.functions.php to pass in 
   $cat and check it, allow for ‘postbycat’ and do the right things, and the new
   query testing $cat. You can grab it from the b2-includes subpath on the site 
   if you want to look at it… It literally took under 10 minutes to do. =d

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articles/#post-27207)
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