With wp-page_category template you can customize your Wordpress adding a page template with a typical page followed by the index of posts in a specific category (look at an example).

1. Open the page-template Page with category and save it from your browser (File > Save page as…).
2. Rename the file wp-page_category.txt in wp-page_category.php.
3. Open the template Navigate posts and save it from your browser (File > Save page as…).
4. Rename the file navigate_posts.txt in navigate_posts.php.
5. Using an free software ftp client (like Filezilla) copy both the files wp-page_category.php and navigate_posts.php into your wp-content/themes/<your theme folder>/.
6. Login at your website and write a new page.
7. Select the Page with category template as page-template.
8. Create a custom field with displayed_categories as Key and the numeric id of the category you want to display as Value.
9. Publish the page.
10. Visit the page you have just published.

License

©2008 by Lorenzo De Tomasi. Copyleft/Some rights reserved. The php code has been released under a Gnu/Gpl 3.0 license.

Future improvements

• Make the <!--more--> work. [Can you help to understand the problem? Thanks]
• Set the number of post listed for each page, using pagination buttons. If no value is set, display the default number of posts.
• Display more than one category at time (for example books and dvds), using comma separated numeric category-ids (131, 12, 36).
• Check if displayed_categories is set.
• Check if categories exist.

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