Title: Expanded Text Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Expanded Text Widget

 *  [motlive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motlive/)
 * (@motlive)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/expanded-text-widget/)
 * The website: [http://www.brken.com](http://www.brken.com)
 * If you look on the homepage you will see a side bar box called “Don’t Miss”. 
   This is a text widget which I am updating manually, what I would like to do is
   automate it a little so it shows says 5 of the latest don’t miss and then link
   to a page that may show a little more information or just the same information
   but all posts for that section.
 * I thought I might be able to create a category and then show it on that side,
   but that didnt work. Anyone got any ideas? Probably a plugin that may do it but
   not sure what to search for.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/expanded-text-widget/#post-1541746)
 * Have you had a look at the Recent Posts widget in Appearance/Widgets.
 *  Thread Starter [motlive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motlive/)
 * (@motlive)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/expanded-text-widget/#post-1541755)
 * Hi,
 * Yes I have the recent posts section, but that just shows the title of the post
   which is fine.
 * As an idea what im looking to do is something like on this website: [http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/](http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/)
 * See the features section. I see that is just a recent posts link, but I dont 
   want to show the latest but just specific posts from a certain category.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/expanded-text-widget/#post-1541806)
 * You could use a [custom query](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts)
   to display these posts or try looking foe a suitable plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/expanded-text-widget/#post-1541806)
 * Status: not resolved

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