Custom Widget in Sidebar using a post from a specific category

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  digitalxplode · Member · Jun 20, 2009 at 11:01 pm

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  using this code to pull the Categories Post, but the issue is it doesnt show on every page of the Site, only the home page and the blog and category pages. Not user created pages.

  Any help?

  Code:

  -ul-
  -?php $recent = new WP_Query(“cat=12&showposts=2”); while($recent–have_posts()) : $recent–the_post();?-
  -li–a href=”-?php the_permalink() ?-” rel=”bookmark”-
  -?php the_title(); ?-
  -/a-
  -br /-
  -?php the_content_rss(”, TRUE, ”, 25); ?–br /-
  -a href=”-?php the_permalink() ?-” title=”-?php the_title() ?-“-Read More…-/a-
  -/li-
  -?php endwhile; ?-
  -/ul-

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  sambauers · Member · Jun 20, 2009 at 11:02 pm

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