'Recent Posts' widget visibility issues

Hi tagDiv

I am trying to use the ‘Recent Posts’ widget in my sidebar to display all recent posts of a certain category. I am using the ‘Visibility’ capability, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me. If I set visibility to show or hide a specific category the result is that no posts are displayed (in fact the widget does not display in the sidebar at all). If I set visibility to hide or show a specific tag, however, the opposite happens – the sidebar seems to ignore any visibility settings and displays all recent posts. Could you please offer some advice on this, or suggest another way I might be able to show recent posts in a certain category in a sidebar?

(Still loving the Newspaper theme, though, apart from this issue!)

Thanks

Gavin

Do you have any documentation on this? It certainly is not working for me, so I’m wondering if it’s something I’m doing wrong.

OK – I’ve looked into this and realised I have misunderstood what this function does. It is not designed for what I’m trying to achieve.

What I’m trying to do is have ‘latest posts’ widget appear on the sidebar of a specific page but to show only the latest posts from a certain category – so effectively filtering the content in the ‘latest posts’ widget by a certain category (or tag). Does anyone know if this is possible?

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

I didn’t realise you could add blocks in this way to a sidebar. Obvious, really now you’ve pointed it out!

Thanks again

Gavin