Unable to get posts with category on my page

add in standard WordPress post specific template tags here eg.
the_title(), the_permalink, the_content, the_excerpt etc.
endforeach;

Like that comments says, call the function you need to display the title.

The category argument appears to represent the category ID, not the slug. Try using category_name instead.

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$myposts = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=5&category_name=basics'); 
while($myposts->have_posts()):
  $myposts->the_post();

  // your output
  the_title();

endwhile;

wp_reset_query();

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