What i am trying to achieve is to have 2 pages that operate where the content is dynamic. ie. home page is a blog tracking exercise progress, "page2" is a food journal that is updated like a blog. Basically a second page that only displays "food journal" category posts. I searched the forum and couldn't find anything like this. Thanks for any ideas.

There is a template in the gold forums -JuggleDad's multi column, custom query template -that would work. You create a page, assign the template to it, add a custom query 'category_name='food journal' and only the journal entries will show up. You can also have the results display in multiple columns.

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perfect, I sent the donation to you. Could I add a similar query to not show "food journal" posts on first page?

what you do is create another page and set it as the front page, then use a custom query 'cat=-3' where you would change 3 to the ID of the 'food journal' category. If you wanted to exclude a couple categories, you would use 'cat=-1,-2,-3'.

there are a number of examples at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_...ce/query_posts