I want to display certain posts on my sidebar widget using text-- I found this [display-posts category="travel" posts_per_page="3"]
but it's just displaying it as is. Any help regarding this? I'm new to wordpress so I'm trying to figure it out on my own, but maybe you could lend a helping a hand I would gladly appreciate it. Thanks.
Maybe this can help you: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-in-sidebar
Or you can just use the recent post widget from dashboard
You can only use plain text or HTML in the Text widget included with WordPress.
Also, the Recent Posts widget included with a standard installation of WordPress doesn't allow you to set from which category to get the posts, so the easiest way to get the functionality that you want is to install a plugin.
Have a look at Recent Posts Widget Extended, with which you'll be able to add a widget to your sidebar and define a category for the recent posts among a lot of other settings not available in the regular Recent Posts widget in WordPress.
First of all, you need to enable shortcodes in sidebar widgets.
For this, install this plugin in WordPress.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets/
[display-posts category="travel" posts_per_page="3"] must be a shortcode for the Display Posts plugin.
Do u have the plugin installed?
If no, you can use this plugin to display posts from a certain category.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/list-category-posts/
After installing the plugin, you will need to add the plugin shortcode in the text widget on your sidebar.
