Show category name, and last 5 post titles below category name?

Question

Is there a function that will let me display a category title and the last 5 post titles from that category just below it? Is there a loop which can do this and list post titles of that category in an un ordered list with the category title just above outside the loop?

Answer 1

you haven't stated where the category id will come from, nor how you want to style the category title, and if the post titles are supposed to be linked to the single post; therefore just the basic structure:

<?php 
$cat_id = 137; 
    echo '<div class="category-title">'.get_category($cat_id)->name.'</div>;
    $cat_posts = get_posts(array('category__in' => array($cat_id), 'posts_per_page' =>5));
    if($cat_posts) {
        echo '<ul class="category-posts">';
        foreach($cat_posts as $cat_post) {
            echo '<li class="category-post">'.get_the_title($cat_post->ID).'</li>';
        }
        echo '</ul>';
    }
?>