Getting 1 Category of Posts on Index

did you ever find an answer to this? i have the same need…?
thx

The following alternative may work

if ( empty( $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ) ) {
$cat = "1";
}

this seems to work for me:

<?php if (empty($_GET[‘cat’])) $cat=”1″; ?>

darrellberry, that works if one doesn’t link to archives, or authors’ posts, or anything other than category pages. The one alphaoide points out makes sure no query-string exists, the case for the home page (under most circumstances).

Thanks alphaoide,

That worked.

Randyd

Oke, this is not working on my current testblog (wp1.5):

https://www.orangeguru.biz/clients/rogler/

<?php
if (empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ) ) {
$cat = "2";
}
?>

<?php include "header.php"; ?>

It still shows ALL categories.

I tried to find Kittens ‘show-categories’ plugin – but her site is down at the moment and the plugin directory doesn’t show anything either.

I also tried the mini plugin from here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=10759#post-81177

But it tricks WP into showing the ARCHIVE page of one category – instead if the index page. Since I have conditions in my theme either for index or archive this is not helpful either.

Any insights greatly appreciated. Thanks!