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I second this. I just need a “Name” field. Visitors don’t need to login, but need to add a name.

I second this. I want visitors to be able to post without logging in, just lip WordPress does with comments, but they need to add a name.

Problem solved for me. I think this should work:

<?php
$ID = $wp_query->posts[0]->ID;
$categoryvariable = get_the_category($ID); // assign the variable as current category
$query= 'cat=' . $categoryvariable. '&orderby=date&order=ASC'; // concatenate the query
query_posts($query); // run the query
?>
<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<ul>
	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<li>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
	<?php the_title(); ?>
	</a>
	</li>
	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</ul>

I didn’t test this particular code, but something similar worked for me

I have the same problem/issue. Basically, the issue is to find the category id of the category under which the current post is stored, outside the loop.

$categoryvariable=$cat; // assign the variable as current category
$query= ‘cat=’ . $categoryvariable. ‘&orderby=date&order=ASC’; // concatenate the query

In this case, we are looking for whatever the value of the ‘$cat’ is, depending on the displayed post. Since it’s empty here, you get the most recent posts from all the categories.