This document provides instructions for displaying recent posts from a specific category in WordPress. It explains that you can modify the "cat=" parameter to specify the category ID and set the number of posts to display using "posts_per_page=". The code sample then shows how to use WP_Query to retrieve and display posts from a given category.

1. How to Display Recent Posts from A Specific Category
In Word-Press
This post is especially for the advanced users, who would like to display their recent posts from a certain
group. Most likely beginner won’t be able to use it. This lesson is widely used in the creation of the magazine
fashion themes.
You can change the amount to how many posts you would like to display, right at the top of the page where is
mentioned ’showpost= ‘ and the ID of the category will be the cat=3, so modify the ID of the category to select
which category you would be displaying.
You will be able to find a live example of this on balkhis.com
By using the code above, the news style format whereas it is displaying the recent post from each of the
category is accomplished.
01 <?php
02 $catquery = new WP_Query( 'cat=3&posts_per_page=10' );
03 while($catquery->have_posts()) : $catquery->the_post();
04 ?>
05 <ul>
06 <li><h3><a href="<?phpthe_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?phpthe_title();
?></a></h3>
07
08 <ul><li><?phpthe_content(); ?></li>
09 </ul>
10 </li>
11 </ul>
12 <?php endwhile; ?>