A simple, themeable widget which displays posts in the category, order, and quantity of your choosing.

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<p>This widget displays posts in the category, order, and quantity of your choosing. It supports custom templates!</p>
<p>After installation, drag-and-drop the new “Category Widget” to a widget area, choose the categories you wish to display, and tell it the order and quantity in which you wish to display them.</p>
<h3>Templates</h3>
<p>The default template is just plain-ol’ HTML5, without any CSS; it’s meant to fit right into any theme without modification.</p>
<p>However, if you’re a theme developer and you wish to use custom markup or WP functions inside your template, here’s how to customize it:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the root of your theme’s directory, create a new file called <code>catswidget.php</code> (or copy <code>template.php</code> from <code>posts-by-cat-widget/views</code> to your theme’s root, and rename it <code>catswidget.php</code>, if you’d rather use the default as a starting point).</li>
<li>Craft your loop. Just make sure you use the <code>$posts</code> variable, like this:<code>if ( $posts -> have_posts() ) :<br />
        while ( $posts -> have_posts() ) :<br />
            $posts -> the_post(); ?><br />
            // Your markup here<br />
        endwhile;<br />
    endif;</code></li>
<li>The widget is just a simple custom loop, so you’ll have access to whatever data WP_Query has access to inside the loop.</li>
</ol>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Perhaps we could use it to query custom post types/taxonomies, not just Posts</li>
<li>Add hooks/filters</li>
<li>Add ability to extend admin</li>
</ul>


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