include all posts, titles, etc from one category into a Page

For each page you create a template, and use a query posts to include that category. When you create the “Outdoors” page, from the attributes, you select the “Outdoors” template.

To create the template, make a copy of index.php of your theme, and rename it outdoors.php. At the very top add

<?php /*
	Template Name: Outdoors
*/ ?>

Then in the part that calls the loop, insert the query to display only that category, in between “if have posts” and “while have posts”, like this

<?php if(have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php
   if (is_page()) {
      query_posts('cat=3');
   }
?>

		<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Replace 3 with your appropriate category number for the ourdoors category.
Repeat the process for the other pages.

If you need the main loop to exclude those categories, you can use on index.php of your theme, either

<?php if(have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<!-- If the post is in the category we want to exclude, we simply pass to the next post. -->
<?php if ($postnum == 1 ) { ?>

// My content

<?php } ?>
 <?php if (in_category('3,4,5')) {$postnum = 0; continue; }
 ?>

again, replacing with the appropriate category numbers

or, follow these instructions
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Exclude_Categories_From_Your_Home_Page

Hope this helps!

How can I easily have a page, other than the posts page, list all the posts (formatted as they are on the Main blog page) pulled from a certain category and placed into on another one of my pages?

This already exists — Category Archives. Creating an additional page template for this only creates duplicate content on your blog.

@ greenshady – there is a very specific use for pulling posts of a category into a separate page and taking them out from the main loop. It’s like creating a different section on the site, where you don’t want all the categories to display on the home page. This is different than the archives. This is useful for blogs with separate topics that need to be organized, rather than having one loop. I am using it on my site as well.

This doesn’t create a duplicate content problem, other than it normally would. There is no difference if the post appears on the main loop, or a separate loop. You are just moving the location of the output. To really avoid duplicate content, it’s good to use All in One SEO, or to add some lines to robots.txt

@ theluminousroom – To add extra (static) content, you edit the template you used to create that page. The page is basically pulling a duplicate of index.php for that category, so you edit it, just as you would to add content other than the loop on the front page. Hope this helps!

You have two options:

1 – you create a sticky post, that will always appear at the top

2 – (this is what I have done) You add that static content in a <div> directly in the template file that you created, before the code calling the loop. You don’t enter it on the page, or it won’t display. The page serves the purpose of calling the template only.

I found this plugin that does just that: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/installation/

Okay,
I guess I do have a slight problem. Following the instructions above, I was able to create a new page that looks great, just as I want it, only showing posts from a single category. But I’ve got my theme set to show 4 posts per page. When I click on the ‘previous entries’ at the bottom of my newly created page, it shows the same 4 entries, not the 4 previous ones from that category.

This works fine on the main blog page where clicking on ‘previous entries’ actually does bring up a page of previous entries. Since I just copied the Main Index template and added the code suggested above, I’m at a loss as to how to fix this. And if you couldn’t tell, I am not a coder and while I could follow the instructions above, I don’t know anything about php.

Any guidance is appreciated. If you want to see the issue, the site is http://www.davesoucy.com. The single category page I created can be found by clicking on the DaveTV tab at the top of the page.

Thanks,
Dave