help with wordpress categories

[cybershot]

I have been googling the crap out of this for two hours without much luck. Here is what I need

I have a tabbed content box with three tabs. I want to make three categories in the content box. One category for each tab. That way the user can make a post in wordpress to a specific category and have it automatically show up in the content box under that tab. This content box is on the homepage. I have been able to get the categories to show up, but it shows all of them no matter what category you post in. I want to show the category, title with permalink and the_excerpt() of the post made to that category. I am using this code to prevent the category from showing up in the homepage regualar posting area

Code:

if (is_home()) {
query_posts(“cat=-24,-25,-26”);
}
?>

got any idea’s. This would make an excellent blog post or tutorial since there does not seem to be an easy to find solution online.

[Rob MacKay]

this little explanation helped me a lot..

http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/0 … wordpress/

You might have found it already though…

[cybershot]

will simple pie split up the categories into 3 different categories and show them in the spot I want them to. Usually rss shows all the posts. I don’t want the entire post to show, I want the title and the_excerpt(). I don’t know if simple pie will do that.

[Chris Coyier]

Code:

Do that for each of the three categories?

[Author]

Posts