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In that theme’s footer.php this seems to control the Recent Posts:

<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>

This seems to control the Recent Comments:

<?php if (function_exists('src_simple_recent_comments')) { src_simple_recent_comments(5, 60, '<h4>Recent Comments</h4>', ''); } ?>

Hint–changing the number 5 in both those seems to be what you want.

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Hey thanks for you reply i managed to sort it out shortly after ha
im trying to allow each category to have a different coloured post is there any way of doing this?

thanks

also to add a different icon for each category would be nice

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Style_Posts_From_Some_Category_Differently

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/category-icons/