Exclude categories from Posts Page

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Pictrix
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I'm am looking to:
1) have posts of certain categories, Press & Events, appear ONLY in their own individual pages, and
2) exclude them from being displayed in the “Posts Page” without using plugins.
The Front Page is set up as a static page.

For item 1), I set up a template that displays posts from a category that has the same name as the page. (See http://mygraphicfriend.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/wordpress-create-a-page-template-that-displays-posts-from-a-category-that-has-the-same-name-as-the-page/#comment-133).

For item 2), I've tried different approaches discussed in this forum but I have not been able to implement them successfully, probably because the facts of the other topics were different than mine and because I'm very new to php.

What code do I need to insert where? I'll greatly appreciate any suggestions!

Posted 2 years ago #
arturkim
Member
Put the following code into your functions.php file and modify the category ID.

You can read more about query_posts() in the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
```
function childtheme_above_indexloop() {
	$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("cat=-3&paged=$paged");
}
add_action('thematic_above_indexloop', 'childtheme_above_indexloop');
```
Artur Kim
Posted 2 years ago #
Pictrix
Member

Your code worked perfectly, thanks so much!
I appreciate the "read more" link too.

Posted 2 years ago #

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