Query_post Question

This is one way to do what you want.

• Use a Custom Field (named category-to-show, or similar) to hold the category id number.
• Write a template to get the Custom Field and use the category number in a call to query_posts().
• Create a Page for each category, put the category id in the custom field and assign the custom template.

You use the get_post_meta() function. Your code would look something like this:

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$cat_id = get_post_meta($post->ID,'category-to-show',true);
if (intval($cat_id)) :
   query_posts("cat=$cat_id&paged=$paged");
   if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
      // your code to display posts
      endwhile;
   else :
      // code for no posts in category
   endif;
else :
   // code for no category in custom field
endif;

Good luck with it!!