How to select and display posts from a category

This is an update of an entry we wrote last week, How to list posts by category.

Here is another block of codes that you can use to display selected posts from a category. The one you see on the right panel of this page like issues // must reads is an example:

<h2>Category description</h2>
   <ul>
   <?php query_posts(‘category_name=Category&showposts=x’); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <li><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?> </li>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Replace “Category” with the name of the category you want to list posts from and “x” with the number of posts you want to show.