query-posts to display only one category on main page

Well, everything is there – but if you cannot make it work for you, this https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/49006#post-269672 was just posted recenly as an alternate solution.

Here’s where I put the query_posts tag, but it doesn’t work:

<?php query_posts(‘cat=1’); ?>
<?php if ($posts) { ?>
<?php foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<?php require(‘post.php’);?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Can anyone spot what I did wrong in the code above?

I use the following (in my not yet visible site in development).

When I only want to show category 2:
$wp_query->set(‘cat’, ‘2’);
query_posts(”);

And then the loop starts:
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

And so on. Note: this will display posts that are in cat 2, but also posts that are also in cat 2.

It worked! Thank you!