List of recent posts from certain category in sidebar?

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  wroth81 · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 8:20 pm

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  Is there a way to display a list of recent posts from a category in the sidebar using a wordpress.com blog?

  I figure that I can use html to create a manual list, but I am looking for a way to make it automatic..

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 8:25 pm

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  Hi. Yes, you can do that by using the RSS Widget…
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/

  …combined with the link to the feed of the category in question. Example (from my blog):
  http://airodyssey.wordpress.com/category/tv-commercials/feed/
  (“tv-commercials” is the name of the category)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 8:25 pm

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  This suggestion may or may not be helpful. All WordPress.com blogs have category feeds. This is the format for a category feed on WordPress.com blogs:
  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/category/categoryname/feed/
  The RSS Widget displays posts from any RSS feed and you can configure it to display a number of entries in a given category.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 8:26 pm

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  ~~airodyssey
  We are a duet :)

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 8:28 pm

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  ~~timethief :-)