Wordpress Display Featured Posts Outside Of Loop

Im new to WP and Im not real sure how to work with the loop. I am trying to display featured posts in the sidebar with this code:

Solution 1:

I don't know how to integrate your thumbnail resizer, but a start is this new query, which I use multiple instances (they won't conflict) in my sidebar to show posts from a particular category. "mycategory" can be a category number and showposts can be a number of posts to show or -1 to show all.

<?php$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=mycategory&showposts=10'); ?><?phpwhile ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?><ahref="<?php the_permalink() ?>"title="Permanent Link to: 
<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?phpendwhile; ?>

Function Reference/WP Query « WordPress Codex

You could add image info in a custom field and then call that:

<?phpecho get_post_meta($post->ID, "image", $single = true); ?>

Function Reference/get post meta « WordPress Codex

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