I posted a reply here on why this question is commonly misconceived.
There are others who have posed the same question without getting much help sadly.
What those who try to help don’t realize is that creating a category template doesn’t create a “navigation link”, which is why everyone who poses this question is asking how to list category posts on a “page”. It allows them to then organize the categories however they wish in their navigation.
Ive been searching for a solution to this problem for a long time as I have been manually adding links to category pages in navigation areas in multiple custom themes to add this functionality. however you are limited to adding them in front or behind the other pages of the site.
The problem as I see it is that WordPress should allow page objects be redirected to other uri elements or other objects.
One solution might be to trick a page with a custom template into believing it is that of a specified category page but that is above me.
Hopefully someone in the know can either make a plugin to this effect or enlighten us.
