hey guys It might sound stupid but can someone explain to me what is parent in the category menu.
I change the colors and everything but there is no changes maybe I misunderstood the meaning of "parent"

Sub-categories have a parent.

It depends...
If you use the WordPres custom menu, you could put a category under a page so the page would be the parent.

or, lets say you have the categories 'animals' and 'frogs' and 'frogs' is a sub-category of 'animals'. You decide to make a custom menu - you could add 'frogs' as a menu item, then add 'animals' as a sub page, making 'frogs' the parent menu item. So now you would have a sub-category the parent menu item.

Custom menus can get messy - you could even have a page a sub menu item for a category.

If you change teh custom menu add 'frogs' again and make it a sub-page of 'animals', you have created a version of that old song "I'm my own grampa"

This might be a completely different conversation, but if I want a post that is in a category, say in gear on my site www.kneedeepflyfishing.com is there a way I could make all posts in the gear category, go to a GEAR PAGE instead?

In other words can I have posts that are labled under certain categories go to certain pages?

Forgive me if this is confusing.

what you are looking for is a category page. If you want a Page to show all the posts for a particular particular category, there is a template in the Gold Forums Tutorials you could use to do it (the gold forums are avaliable to members who have donated $20 or more)

Ok so I donated $20 because you guys are awesome! Can you point me in the right direction for the tutorial?

Thanks,

I downloaded the template and uploaded into the theme file. I tested it on a new page and its working I just don't know how to make it pull from a certain category. I looked at the http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_...ce/query_posts page but I cant figure it out.

Where do I put the category name that I want the page to show?

Thanks,

I figured out where to put the category name and my new page is now pulling from the category that I want it to. Now my only question is how do I get a new page to pull from another category?

Thanks,

Create a new page, select the template, add the custom query field in using 'cat=nn' or 'category_name=xxxxxxxx' for the value

How do I add the custom query? Do I copy and paste this for each page?

<?php
list($bfa_ata, $cols, $left_col, $left_col2, $right_col, $right_col2, $bfa_ata['h_blogtitle'], $bfa_ata['h_posttitle']) = bfa_get_options();
get_header();
extract($bfa_ata);

$custom_fields = get_post_custom($post->ID);
$my_custom_field = $custom_fields['custom_query'];
$args = '';
foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value )
if ($key == 'custom_query') {$args= $value;}

$paged = get_query_var('paged');
if (!$paged) {
$paged = get_query_var('page');
if (!$paged) {
$paged = 0;
}
}

$args= $args."&paged=$paged";

query_posts( array ( 'category_name' => 'Video', ) );
?>

all you need do is
1) create a page
2) select the template 'JUGGLEDAD's Multi Column/Custom Query'
3) add a custom field called 'custom_query'
4) put a custom query in the value field. The value would look like

category_name=Direction

or

category_name='Staff House'

GOT IT!! Thanks so much. I was struggling because my custom fields was not showing up. Then I realized I just needed to change it in screen options.

Thanks so much again,