WP Theme Footer w/ Linked Page

[Morfie]

Simplified for everyone's sanity and re-posted.

 

Got a Wordpress Conference theme, lets you enter speakers into a database and assign each one a category/role.

In the settings for the theme, there's a dropdown from which you can select one of the roles you create. Doing so will display all the speakers assigned that role in the footer of the homepage and also populate a stand-alone Speakers page with the same role.

I want to make it so that the footer on the homepage displays one role and the stand-alone speaker page displays another.

Here's the PHP for the Speakers page (identical to the footer PHP)

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: Speakers page
 * Description: Speakers page
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage wpconference
 * @since wpconference 0.1
 */

get_header(); ?>

    <div id="primary">
        <div id="content" role="main">
        
        <h1 class='entry-title'><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

            <?php
                global $conf_sched;
                
                $speakers_category = $conf_sched->get_option('speakers-category',-1);
                if($speakers_category !=-1){
                    $speaker = get_term($speakers_category, 'participant-roles');
                    $conf_sched->shortcode_participants(array('role'=>$speaker->slug));    
                }else
                {
                    _e("To be annouced...",'wpconference');
                }
                                        
            ?>
    </div> <!-- #content -->
    </div> <!--  #primary -->
    
    <?php get_footer(); ?>

Here's the HTML for the "dropdown" portion of the settings, where you can see the role categories available. "Speaker" is the default created by the Theme, "whyattend" is the one I made.

<!-- Speakers Category -->
            <tr valign="top"><th scope="row">Speakers Category</th>
                <td>
                    <select name='conf_sched[speakers-category]' id='cat_speakers' class='postform' >
    <option value='-1'>&#8212;</option>
    <option class="level-0" value="2">Speaker</option>
    <option class="level-0" value="17" selected="selected">whyattend</option>
</select>
 <br />
                    <span class="description">Please choose which category is your speakers category. If none is available please go to Participants menu and add a new role speakers</span>
                </td>
            </tr>

I want "whyattend" to show on the Footer and "Speaker" to populate the Speakers page.

Can this be done?