Title: Simple Widget Help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Simple Widget Help

 *  [solmartin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solmartin/)
 * (@solmartin)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-widget-help/)
 * Hi there,
 * I would like to accomplish two tasks, and I am not 100% familiar with WP.
 * 1) How do I create a widget for latest entries, for each specific post category.
 * ex: I have two blog categories: news and events. I would like to make a widget
   that shows Latest News, and another widget that shows Latest Events. Recent posts
   doesn’t work, as it puts both together.
 * 2) What is the code so this only shows on specific pages (say, home and blog)?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Micah Cooksey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micahcooksey/)
 * (@micahcooksey)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-widget-help/#post-2026398)
 * Two plugins should accomplish your purposes:
 * [Widgets Reloaded](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets-reloaded/) and
   [Widget Logic](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/).
 *  Thread Starter [solmartin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solmartin/)
 * (@solmartin)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-widget-help/#post-2026428)
 * Thanks for your response Micah. I’ve installed the plugins, and am now left with
   this question:
 * To use widget logic on a specific page, you type
    is_page(‘about’)
 * What would I type if About had 15-20 pages nested inside it?
 *  [Micah Cooksey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micahcooksey/)
 * (@micahcooksey)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-widget-help/#post-2026445)
 * Try this:
    `global $post; return (is_page('about') || ($post->post_parent=="13"));`
 * Replace “13” with the page id of your about page. You can find this in the “edit
   pages” page.
 *  Thread Starter [solmartin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solmartin/)
 * (@solmartin)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-widget-help/#post-2026480)
 * Excellent! Thanks Micah!
 *  Thread Starter [solmartin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solmartin/)
 * (@solmartin)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-widget-help/#post-2026562)
 * one more question, which kind of loops me back to the first question posed:
 * If I have a blog category I want to make a widget showing latest entries, what
   would I write for code? Using widgets reloaded, I have categories selected, and
   have it set to
 * taxonomy; category
    order by: name include: news exclude: events.
 * with these settings, all I get is a link to the blog… which means it’s working,
   but I need it to pull the latest article titles.
 * Thanks for all the help!
 *  Thread Starter [solmartin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solmartin/)
 * (@solmartin)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-widget-help/#post-2026663)
 * Repost just in case this got missed:
 * I have two blog categories: news and events. I would like to make a widget that
   shows Latest News, and another widget that shows Latest Events. Recent posts 
   doesn’t work, as it puts both together.

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