Thanks for the suggestion Esmi, but I was hoping to maybe just duplicate the existing “Recent Posts” widget and add an extra (category name=News) parameter to it and rename the widget to “Recent Posts:News” so its unique.
I really don’t want to reinvent the wheel here and I am trying to keep things light and easy to follow up at a later stage.
Do you think duplicating the parents existing widget in the child theme could work?
Thanks all,
Rob