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Ack, forgot to cose a code tag, sorry about that. I'd edit it if I could.

Okay, we're rolling now. As of now, I have the ability to have any post submitted to that one particular category show up ONLY on the unique page assigned to it, and PERFECTLY in sync with the format on that page. (For reference purposes my "News" page is found at http://www.polhemus.cc/blog/news.php).

One of the most important things I've discoverd ("DUH!") is that you must have the .php extension on the file. I presume Apache (in my case) has to have this to know to invoke the PHP module. Others can fill us in on that far better than I can.

Also, I've hacked the "loop" portion of the code so that it shows only the title (with no permalink, since I just want to put my news items up and don't need the "comments" feature).

What I need to do now (further hacking required) is (1) have it show the posts only from the current month (but ALL those from the current month) on the "live" page but one the option of going back to prior months; (2) an option for "(1)" so that would allow me to have a list of links in the "sidebar" area showing titles of older articles--this option might work with having, say, ten "full" articles in the mainbar and all the others in the sidebar--maybe all the articles YTD.

Any recommendations along these lines would be very welcome.

bpolhemus

Wouild you please mind sharing your code snippet on how you got this working?
Thanks in advance.

I used this thread to set up a WP site showing only category 1 on front page, and linking to other categories. But now, after upgrading to WP 2.0.3. Anybody know anything about this??

Can someone exclusively post a howto about this? Since I have no clue about php and coding, the solutions given were simply incomprehensible. Just to make my problem clear : I have a particular category, say, Ramblings, I want that to appear on the main page. I have another category called 'Coding', which I want to be on the 'Coding' page. How do I go about it? Where do I add code and what code do I add? Any help in this matter is duly appriciated and thanked for.

Well, if you couldn't understand from the above and from the links in the Codex - give it up.

Even writing down once again what was said wouldn't help.

Just go and use a plugin:
http://ryowebsite.com/?p=46

Hey, is there a way where I use the plugin execPHP, Create a new page called Category 1, and write code on that page which calls for the posts in Category1? And remove the Category1 from the category list in the siderbar??

1. The most common misconception. You do NOT need any Page to display posts in a catgeory. You need a Category Template.
Mandatory reading: http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
2. For removing from the sidebar look up the parameters of the template tag used in your sidebar:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags#Category_tags
(hint: look for "exclude")
3. Why would you need phpexe? I don't get it.

Well, I may be frustrating you guys with my throughly noobish questions, please bear with me. You see, I basically got the idea from seeing that when I use a plugin like lazyest gallery, I have to create a page called Gallery and save it with some little snippet of code within the page. But to run the code it is necessary that I have phpexec plugin. That makes the 'Gallery' page appear on top of my header.
Now with that in mind I thought I want pages for, say, catergory 1 , category 2 etc, which will display sutff which are in the respective category. That said, I got around using 'Faking It' by Chris , which basically is a tutorial to make you wordpress a CMS. But the damn problem is that it works only for 1.2, and not for 2.04. I'm wondering if theres a tutorial like this : http://www.chrisjdavis.org/2004/07/15/faking-it-wordpress-as-cms/1/

There is nothing wrong about being a noob... we all started as a new user at some point :)
However, it is considered a great sin, if without a thorough understanding of how WP works, you want to force your preconceptions on WP's behaviour. That's the problem: "having ideas" about what should happen - according to you... instead of reading and trying to get around with the built-in solution offered and linked for you.
(At the time of 1.2 there was no theme system, there were no templates in the theme folder, there wasn't even a theme folder - that's a totally different animal... so why the heck are you looking at everything else except the solution offered?)

Another common mistake: You "think" you figured out that to achieve goal XYZ - you need a category displayed on a Page. (which is usually a nonsense) It would be much more productive if you describe the desired end result and a knowledgeable helper would give you the solution in a few minutes. Describe your goal, tell us what you want to achieve - and somebody will explain to you how to make it work.