MichaelH

I am no programmer, or anything.

Now you don’t have to say that anymore. Good Work!

Also:

http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/test-data.2010-08-02.xml
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-data-for-themers?replies=2

Don’t forget the native WordPress function get_cat_ID

Look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capa/

Are you saying a conditional tag such as is_page('42') is not working?

Related:

* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slayers-custom-widgets
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-context
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dynamic-widgets/
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/

$args=array(
  'meta_key' => 'featured',
  'meta_value' => 'JA',
  'post_type' => 'event',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);

See query_posts()

In WordPress you don’t really write posts into a page.

Here’s some plugins that might help:
# http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postlists/
# http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pages-posts/
# http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/ (uses shortcode)
# http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-posts-list/ (uses shortcode}
# http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nurelm-get-posts/ (uses shortcode)

Try this instead:

$cat_id = get_cat_ID('your category');
$args=array(
  'cat' => $cat_id,
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);