get a LIST of posts (the links)

Any Category_Template will list your posts in that category… and it is just a matter of editing the template file to display whatever you want: only title, title and excerpt, title and content etc.

There used to be a plugin “no subcats”
https://ryowebsite.com/wp-plugins/nosubcats/
I have no idea if it works with 2.3

No… I need to list the title/link of the posts in a certain category… for a SIDEBAR…

Not the entire posts inside “a loop”.

Then use a miniloop in the sidebar qith query_posts.

Mhh…

What about the widget? Is it possible to create an instance of the rencent_posts and just display it?

My problem is that I want to do that same thing, but inside a widget I did.

Every time you get an answer you change your question ??
Decide what you want and describe it in details…

Oh man, I’m sorry I’m not good in explaining myself ??
It’s a good feature for a blogger.

In my widget answer, I was talking about the “recent_posts” widget that is ALREADY present inside wodpress.

I need to do exactly that thing… but I need to do inside a sidebar object that I’m developing, so I need the code that generates that “recent_posts” using the widget called “recent posts”.

And what stops you from looking into the widgets file? You know that lately the widgets are built-in…
wp-includes/widgets.php

I resolved without documentation cause I didn’t find any:
<ul><?php wp_widget_recent_entries(array('number'=>'5', 'before_title'=>'<li><span>', 'after_title'=>'</span></li>', 'title'=>'Recent Posts:')); ?></ul>

However thank you, of course I was obligated to watch at widgets.php.
I didn’t knew that the widgets were here.

The better solution was:
<p><?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=20'); ?></p>

Bye and sorry for the mess ??