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 the founder and primary author of WordPress Hacks. You can learn more about him at KyleEslick.com or you can follow his personal tweets here.
Thanks for releasing this version. 
As your site has a lot of widgets, so I think it will significantly reduce the server usage. 
I'd love to do the 301 redirect, but it seems that with Wordpress's canonical URLs, redirects create infinite loops that ...
Great gallery. But I wasted 3 months to find a good free wordpress template and finally no one was customizable ...
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