can mini-frontpage function by only searching Sections?

I am using mini-frontpage to display 2 articles from the current issue section and 1 article from the book review section. These are sections 7 and 3.

I would like the most recent articles from these sections to be posted, but as it is, mini-frontpage displays articles only if I specify a section AND a category.

Has anyone modified mini-frontpage to work by specifying sections only? Could you post what you did?

take care,
Miguel

Hello Miguel

I've tried to replicate your case at my end, and it seems to work fine here. No Need to assign Category AND it's Sub/child Category.
I select a (Parent) Category and another (Parent) Category and it loads one latest created article from each category.
So I think it really depends on your article created date, have you checked their creation date? even 1 second would have an effect in their ordering.

Let us know then