Recently Richard over at WP Project did a great redesign on his site. With that redesign came a great “Featured Articles” section that features the five most recent posts in the “Featured” category on his blog.
In this post, Richard explains the steps required to feature a designated number of posts in a category of your choice. Here is the result:
Click over to get the code you need to setup something similar on your WordPress blog.
Edit: Links have been removed as the website is no longer there.
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.
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Hi Kyle,
I had the exact problem you stated, my author archive went to
/author/Jordan%20Godbey
and my nicename in the database was "Jordan ...
Liked the "SimpleWP Theme". Neat and clean. Over all good collection of themes. 
The new download link for the wordpress help sheet:
http://wpcandy.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/WordPress-Help-Sheet.pdf 
really nice theme.thanks a lot 
Open php.ini file and increase the size. 
Thanks for the mention Kyle.
I must say, HackWordPress has been quite helpful many times throughout the journey.
Keep up the great work.
~ another happy subscriber
@ Richard – Thanks for the kind words!
I think the link to the article is dead
@ Monika – Thanks for the heads up on this! It looks like GoDaddy now owns the domain, so I’ve gone ahead and removed the links.
Sorry about that! I may write a post explaining how to do this in the near future.
Hi Kyle I’ll wait
and I’m happy too if someone told me that a link is broken – we can’t have our eyes every day on every article