I need to be able to make posts and not have them appear on the main page. How can I do this?

I'm using the main page as a blog that will have post daily.

I need to be able to post to the secondary page and not have it show up on the first page.

What is the best way to set this up? Do I need a PlugIn?

I tried Page2Cat but it just bullet point lists Category Titles.

To have posts of a certain category not show up on the home page, find, in index.php, around line 100-103, this:

PHP Code:

    <?php // Do this for all posts:
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?>

(You might not have the $postcount++ part if your Atahualpa version is older)

and add the following right above it (to exclude posts of the category with the ID 3):

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3");
} ?>

To exclude posts from several categories, i.e. categories with the ID's 3, 7 and 11:

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3,-7,-11");
} ?>

I do have that code. It's around line 41 though.

I was hoping that I could create a custom field or do something else. I would like to avoid having to update my index.php every time I post to the secondary page.

Any other Ideas or suggestions?

Why would you have to update your index.php each time? If you want a new post to not appear on the homepage, put it into the category that you excluded with the above code.

I don't know what I was thinking, you're right.

The code works, the new posts are now only posting to the Category I want them to.

Is it possible to not have those posts show up in the "Recent Post" widget?

Also the posts to the Categories show up in a "Collapsed" state, not showing the content in the body, only the Title. Any idea about this?

Originally Posted by TPR

The code works, the new posts are now only posting to the Category I want them to.

Is it possible to not have those posts show up in the "Recent Post" widget?

Probably with another widget, something that offers more options. See http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Originally Posted by TPR

Also the posts to the Categories show up in a "Collapsed" state, not showing the content in the body, only the Title. Any idea about this?

Only the title, or the title and a part of the body? Are you using the Read more tag

<!--more-->

in those posts? That would require another code

Only the title, or the title and a part of the body? Are you using the Read more tag

After looking at it a little closer. It will show the Text in the body, but not the images/media in the body. When the Post Title is clicked the body will expand and show the image/media.

No, I'm not using the more tag.

Probably with another widget, something that offers more options. See http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

I can't find something to work that doesn't through off the design of the site. All That I need is the widget to not display comments from a couple categories.

Originally Posted by Flynn

To have posts of a certain category not show up on the home page, find, in index.php, around line 100-103, this:

PHP Code:

    <?php // Do this for all posts:
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?>

(You might not have the $postcount++ part if your Atahualpa version is older)

and add the following right above it (to exclude posts of the category with the ID 3):

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3");
} ?>

To exclude posts from several categories, i.e. categories with the ID's 3, 7 and 11:

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3,-7,-11");
} ?>

Hello,

I found this post very helpful, however I tried it on my website: www.gametvweb.com didn't work, Actually the instruction
<?php // Do this for all posts:
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?> was in page.php file not the in index.php. I dont want to havefeatred articles to be posted on the main page, do u have any clew how to do it.
any help will be much appreciated.
thanks

You shouldn't have a page.php. What Atahualpa version do you have?

Sorry I don't know what is Atahualpa ? how can I know which version is? the only think I know is I'm using wordpress 2.7.1 !!!

But definitely the them has page.php file, I included the them file on this link http://www.gametvweb.com/theme/ please take a look at them and let me know what do u think?

Your help really appreciated.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Nad

Sorry I don't know what is Atahualpa ? how can I know which version is? the only think I know is I'm using wordpress 2.7.1 !!!

But definitely the them has page.php file, I included the them file on this link http://www.gametvweb.com/theme/ please take a look at them and let me know what do u think?

Your help really appreciated.

Thanks

You seem to be using another theme. I cannot support other developer's themes I'm afraid. I suggest that you ask on the blog of the developer of your theme.

Sorry I didn't know that , but thanks for your time anyway

Thank to everyone for the explanations.

swg credits

Reading you guys talk through these issues really helps a beginner like myself :D

Hi Flynn, I was wondering if we could backtrack to a part of post #1

I need to be able to post to the secondary page and not have it show up on the first page.

NOT having a post turn up has been dealt with, but what about getting it to turn up on the 2ndry page?

How to post a certain category, in this case "news" category posts, to a page called NEWS, whilst any other posts will go to HOME page? I have page2cat plugin, but that doesn't seem to work even though I have filled in all the bits that need to be filled in and linked it all together.

Any ideas?

I put together a 'HOWTO: a 'Custom Query' PAGE template' thread with a template to allow you to make custom queries because page2cat didn't work for me. see
http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=7822

it is in the gold forum

I've achieved this on a site using the List Category Posts plugin.

http://picandocodigo.net/programacio...lugin-english/

Hi Juggledad,

I put together a 'HOWTO: a 'Custom Query' PAGE template' thread with a template to allow you to make custom queries because page2cat didn't work for me. see
http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=7822

it is in the gold forum

i have donated as instructed and still can't get in to your thread. I have also written to Flynn to mention this to him (it says to PM him at the top of this forum if you make a donation). Is it up to Flynn or you to credit this donation? Please PM me if you need the email address I used.

Send me a PM with a copy of the pay pal confirmation and I'll look into it