Creating pages with category posts

Dear reader,

I’m trying to create pages that show the posts of a specific category. I need pages for that, because I use the featured images of these pages elswhere on my website.

So far, I’ve tried a couple of different plugins for this, but they didn’t realy get me anywere. If you know a good plugin that will do this, please let me know.

Since the plugins didn’t work, I made a custom page template that shows the posts of the catogory with the same name as the page title. Still follow? I used the following code:

<?php query_posts('category_name='.get_the_title()); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
        <div>
        <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
        <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
        </div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>no match<?php endif; ?>

There is a problem with this setup. It will first show all of my featured images, post titles and post dates, and than all of my post contents. The reader is nog able to see what content belongs to what featured image/ title. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Also, I would like there to be a limited amount of posts, forinstance 5. Would anyone know how to do this?

Again, I will also be perfectly happy with a proper working plugin that shows my posts WITH featured image, title and date.

Thank you!

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