TOC or recent posts per category in category view

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  aritikka · Member · Feb 5, 2010 at 8:31 am

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  Hi,
  I am using categories to let readers view what is under this category. Now, when they click e.g. Articles, there is four long posts. They need to scroll a lot.

  It would be extremely helpful to
  a) update the recent posts to recent posts in this category, add an option in the widget parameters
  b) have a new widget for this

  Can you suggest a workaround?

  Best Wishes
  Ari Tikka

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 5, 2010 at 8:58 am

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  The site linked to your name is not a WordPress.com blog and we won’t be able to help you with that. If you have a WP.com blog, please change the link to reflect it so we can see the blog.

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  aritikka · Member · Feb 8, 2010 at 6:21 am

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  Sorry, did I provide a wrong link… this is what I ment.

  aritikka.wordpress.com

  Ari

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 8, 2010 at 6:48 am

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  Workaround: links to recent posts per category as unordered lists in one or multiple text widgets. Drawback: must be manually updated.

  To avoid scrolling in category pages, you can use the read-more tag in your posts:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
  Or you can switch to a theme that displays (or can be made to display) beginnings or titles in category pages – see here, first two columns plus end of note 3:

  Category/archive pages: full posts or not