Is there a way to make it so wordpress only displays posts from a selected category on the index instead of my latest posts? Thanks for help in advance.
A simple way to do this is possibly to just rewrite the front page index.php with a custom code that will include the menu and theme but the main content will be database specific. Here's a link to two scripts I found via google: http://wordpressgarage.com/plugins/...ugin-for-excluding-categories-from-home-page/
You can use the if...then statement in the file header.php to add meta tag robots index or noindex for categories you want.