Here is how you list posts from a particular category in a wordpress page template, right before the “while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ” call add:

<?php query_posts('category_name=name&showposts=100'); ?>
<?php /*  change name to the name of the category posts you want to display   */  ?>

The reason the wordpress function query_posts() breaks the sidebar template is because its not a simple database query collecting posts from a specific category, but its resetting the query object as a whole to reflect a normal category query.

So to fix the sidebar template you have to go with creating a new query object through WP_Query() in your page template. So here is the before and after of the loop in a page template.

Page Template Loop BEFORE:

<?php query_posts('category_name=name&showposts=100'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       <!-- do stuff ... -->
<?php endwhile; ?>

Page Template Loop AFTER:

<?php $cat_posts = new WP_Query('category_name=name'); ?>
<?php if($cat_posts->have_posts()) : ?>
         <?php while($cat_posts->have_posts()) : $cat_posts->the_post(); ?>
                 <!-- do stuff ... -->
         <?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Hope that helps someone, cya.

With this link,  it shows the xml created from the API of the newest files I have uploaded to GraphicRiver.net up to 10 (I only have one up so its only showing that one).

Here is the Envato Marketplace API Documentation.

Here is an API example. After clicking the link, look toward the bottom of the side navigation, I have some of my sellable items from the marketplace listed using the API.

Here is the code I inserted into the sidebar.php file in my wordpress files. I added it right after the last ‘<?php endif; ?>’. Don’t forget for it to work you have to download the Envato Recent Files Plugin, upload that to your plugins folder, and activate it.

<h2>Latest Sellable Items</h2>
	<li><?php echo envato_recent_items('your_marketplace_username', 'envato_sitename', 1, true, $ref='your_marketplace_username'); ?></li>
	<li><?php echo envato_recent_items('scottrockers', 'graphicriver', 1, true, $ref='scottrockers'); ?></li>

Cya

So I had a little extra time this weekend to work on some flash stuff so I createD a newsletter sign up form.  Which brings me to this point,  one of the things that attracts me to Flash so much is that I can easily customize the look and feel of anything I work on really easily. You have to love the Flash IDE, thats all I am saying.  Some of the features that I programmed into this sign up form that I would like to point out are:

1. Use of the “Enter” key with the keylistener function to make it more user friendly
2. Tab indexing functionality also to make it more user friendly
3. Error detection on the input field for those users who are retarded (basically it won’t take any input that is not a valid email address)

I am all about user friendliness, and  I will get more into that at some point.  There is a really simple PHP script that goes along with this, and for right now it just sends the email address the user inputs to a certain email address (right now it just sends it to my email). At some point, I would like for the input to be put directly into a database but thats for later.

Cya