Comments on: Tweaking Wordpress – excluding categories from the front page

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:08:42 +0000

Hey, this worked great.

One little thing that happened to me, not sure exactly why it happened, but pagination stopped working. What appeared on the front page would be the same as page 2 and so on.

I made a small change that seems to have fixed it.

query_posts($query_string . “&cat-xxx”);

I just changed your line of with query_posts to this and it worked.

By: neil

neil — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:42:46 +0000

@Emma: you would need to add code to determine whether the page being viewed was the home page or not. See the is_home() function call in the Wordpress codex for more info on how to execute code only on the home page.

By: Emma

Emma — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:27:17 +0000

How would I get the category that I exclude to show up on another page? I have a category that I only want to appear on a certain page, not the homepage.

By: mp3bag

mp3bag — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:32:33 +0000

Thanks, tweaked my site Working flawlessly

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:16:12 +0000

Excellent post! This is exactly what I was looking for, also. I’m actually not going to implement it just yet, but I know there’ll come a time when I want to remove my more trashy blog entries from the homepage.

By: neil

neil — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:08:39 +0000

There’s a tutorial for excluding category posts from your RSS feed here:
http://zeo.unic.net.my/notes/exclude-category-in-wordpress/

It means adding to (or creating) the functions.php file in your theme folder, then placing a filter into it. Seemed to work for me here, though watch out for changes appearing not to take immediate effect due to the feed being cached.

By: neil

neil — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:18:56 +0000

Good question. This will only work for the actual home page as yu are editing the blog’s default home page file. I’ll do some digging on the excluding from the feed and post here is I find anything.

By: Alex Bellinger

Alex Bellinger — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:59:40 +0000

This is very handy. Just what I need at the moment for a section of the site I want to show up separately from the main SmallBizPod blog feed.

Does this piece of code exclude the category from the RSS feed as well? Or is it just simply a way of making sure a category doesn’t get displayed on the homepage?