Excluding Posts (again!)

I have scoured the posts already available but I still can’t seem to get it. I bet some of you are fed up of seeing the same old stuff!

Im running a travel website, https://www.travelvows.com. I have a page for reviews, a page for guides, and now I have just created a new page for a personal blog part. Im creating a new template (identical to the one I am using under ‘Guides’).

On my dashboard, a ‘Post’ goes onto my ‘guides’ page, and ‘Reviews’ goes onto my ‘Reviews’ page. I am attempting for the ‘Post’ category ‘Blog’ to appear solely on my ‘Blog’ page, and not on my ‘Guides’ page.

If you haven’t glossed over yet, we’ll talk about code.

<?php

/*

Template Name: Blog

*/

?>

<?php get_header(); global $colabs_options; ?>

<div id="stories-map"class="map-destinations columns col11"></div><!-- .map-destinations -->

<?php  echo setMap( array(

	'el' => 'stories-map', 

	'posttype' => 'post'

	)

);  ?>	 

<div class="main columns col11">

	<div class="col-stories columns col11 fl">

        <h2 class="ribbon"><?php _e('Blog','colabsthemes');?></h2>

		<?php $query_posts = new WP_query('post_type=post&paged='.$paged);?>

		<?php if($query_posts->have_posts()):?>

        <ul class="post-list">

			<?php while ( $query_posts->have_posts() ) : $query_posts->the_post(); ?>

                <li class="posting">

					<?php colabs_image(array());?> 

					<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h3>

					<span class="bigred"><?php the_category(' ,');?><?php the_tags(' // ', ', ', '');?></span>				

					<br/><?php colabs_custom_excerpt();?>

					<div class="more"><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php _e('read more','colabsthemes');?></a></div>

				</li>

            <?php endwhile; ?>

		</ul>

		<?php colabs_pagination('', $query_posts);?><!-- .pagination -->

		<?php endif;?>		

    </div>

    <?php //get_sidebar();?>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

The above code is for my new template, which I wish to exclude all categories apart from the ID=2 (blog). I have seen some examples and tutorials online but I am not sure where to put the extra code get_post.

<?php

/*

Template Name: Stories

*/

?>

<?php get_header(); global $colabs_options; ?>

<div id="stories-map"class="map-destinations columns col11"></div><!-- .map-destinations -->

<?php  echo setMap( array(

	'el' => 'stories-map', 

	'posttype' => 'post'

	)

);  ?>	 

<div class="main columns col11">

	<div class="col-stories columns col11 fl">

        <h2 class="ribbon"><?php _e('Guides','colabsthemes');?></h2>

		<?php $query_posts = new WP_query('post_type=post&paged='.$paged);?>

		<?php if($query_posts->have_posts()):?>

        <ul class="post-list">

			<?php while ( $query_posts->have_posts() ) : $query_posts->the_post(); ?>

                <li class="posting">

					<?php colabs_image(array());?> 

					<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h3>

					<span class="bigred"><?php the_category(' ,');?><?php the_tags(' // ', ', ', '');?></span>				

					<br/><?php colabs_custom_excerpt();?>

					<div class="more"><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php _e('read more','colabsthemes');?></a></div>

				</li>

            <?php endwhile; ?>

		</ul>

		<?php colabs_pagination('', $query_posts);?><!-- .pagination -->

		<?php endif;?>		

    </div>

    <?php //get_sidebar();?>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

This is the code I wish to excluse JUST ID=2 (blog) and allow all others to go through.

If anyone could help me and allow me to sort this problem I would be greatly appreciative.

Thanks for reading!

Adam