I'm helping convert a large Drupal blog to WordPress. The site currently has a NewsWire Page that is separate from the Home Page. We'd like to do this in WordPress too. I'm thinking giving NewsWire posts a category of "Newswire" then not displaying that category on the Home Page would work.

Is there a way to do this from Atahualpha Theme Options or do I need to tweak index.php?

If I do need to tweak index.php, what should it says?

I'm open to other ideas too.

Thanks!

You could use the 'multi column/custom query' template and in the custom query, name all the categories except that one for the home page.

Great theme! I can use it easily to display just one category.

Is there any way to have a custom query that eliminates one category without listing all the others?

"cat<>6" didn't work. Hmmm.

I beleive you use -6

UPDATE: you you would say

cat=-1,-2,-3

That worked! Thx.

Is there a way to display full posts instead of excerpts using your theme. I have Configure Excerpts-> Full Posts on for everything including categories but am still getting excerpts because, I guess, it's a page not a category.

You could just set the excerpt length to 999 in the Configure Excerpts section of the theme options.

Excellent idea. Thanks!