How to Display Posts from a Specific Category in Wordpress

This is a little advanced tutorial for wordpress users.  Using this tutorial wordpress usres can display posts from a specific or particular category. You can also customize the number of posts that you want to display from that category.

Following code is using to display  the posts in a specific category in wordpress.

<?php
$catquery = new WP_Query( 'cat=3&posts_per_page=10' );
while($catquery->have_posts()) : $catquery->the_post();
?>
<ul>
<li><h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

<ul><li><?php the_content(); ?></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<?php endwhile; ?>

From the above code change the 3 to your category id .

Change the 10 to desired number of posts you want to display.