Correction
The methods I showed above actually don’t link correctly. The links show up in order I choose in first example, in default order in the second example. In both cases, the links are messed up the main loop. I end up getting all sidebar links to pull the posts from the last of the three loops. Perhaps this is because these come before the main loop in the sidebars?
The only method that does work, but shows descending order only, is:
<?php query_posts('cat=8&showposts=3'); ?>
<?php $posts = get_posts('category=8&numberposts=3&offset=0');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
Hoping somebody must have a clue as to how to do this–much appreciation.
