Category selection on a page

You don’t say how you currently are displaying the categories so will point you to the “A page of posts” example in the Pages article.

hi, i have created a page called events and used the archive template for this page

then i have loaded a category called events and loaded a post for an event eg https://www.postgraduatesinsport.com/?cat=25

if you go to page https://www.postgraduatesinsport.com/?page_id=156
you can see the arhcive template used for the page. the only thing i want showing on this page is the category Events & Conferences (1)

i dont want to show the monthly archives, the popular tags or the last 30 posts… just the category i want to have on this page eg for events just the Events & Conferences (1) posts…

Then using the Page of posts example, create a new Page Template, and assign that to that page.

sorry for being a complete novice here but how do i upload the template pageofeventposts to the site?

also where do i insert the category id in the code?

the code i have created is:
<?php
/*
Template Name: PageOfEventPosts
*/

get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>

<?php
if (is_page() ) {
$category = get_post_meta($posts[0]->ID, ‘category’, true);
}
if ($category) {
$cat = get_cat_ID($category);
$paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;
$post_per_page = 4; // -1 shows all posts
$do_not_show_stickies = 1; // 0 to show stickies
$args=array(
‘category__in’ => array($cat),
‘orderby’ => ‘date’,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’,
‘paged’ => $paged,
‘posts_per_page’ => $post_per_page,
‘caller_get_posts’ => $do_not_show_stickies
);
$temp = $wp_query; // assign orginal query to temp variable for later use
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( have_posts() ) :
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class() ?> id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<h2>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<small><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> <!– by <?php the_author() ?> –></small>
<div class=”entry”>
<?php the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry ?’); ?>
</div>
<p class=”postmetadata”><?php the_tags(‘Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘
‘); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments ?’, ‘1 Comment ?’, ‘% Comments ?’); ?></p>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘? Older Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Newer Entries ?’) ?></div>
</div>
<?php else : ?>

<h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
<p class=”center”>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.</p>
<?php get_search_form(); ?>

<?php endif;

$wp_query = $temp; //reset back to original query

} // if ($category)
?>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>