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1. courtneyelizabeth
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   uh k....I KNOW i've seen this somewhere before, but I cant find it now...and clicking whatever links i find sends me back to the category tag...but not what i'm looking for...so here goes nothing...

   I have two categories...2 main categories..

   i want ONLY ONE category to post to the main page....the other category should just act as an archive....how can i go about doing this?

2. ifelse
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If you don't want a particular category to show on the main page, what you can do is open up the index.php file in your blog root (not the theme's index.php) and add the $cat=-2 before require('./wp-blog-header.php');

   2 is the category id of the category that you don't want to show up (i.e. your 'archive' category).

3. ifelse
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Or, you can follow the instructions here.

4. courtneyelizabeth
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @ ifelse,

   thank you for your help, but whenever someone wants to click on the Poetry category from the main page, it wont show the posts now. :(

   maybe i explained it wrong....i still want peopel to be able to click on the "poetry" category to get to the posts in that category. I just dont want them to be included on the main page.

5. ifelse
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Can you try the following:
   copy (not rename) the theme's index.php into home.php i.e. copy
   /wp-content/themes/chewinggum/index.php to /wp-content/themes/chewinggum/home.php

   Now at the top of home.php, there should be a line called get_header();
   after it add the following line:
   query_posts('cat=1');

6. courtneyelizabeth
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   okay, PROMISE...i dont have get_header() in my current index.php renamed to home.php in the theme folder

7. courtneyelizabeth
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   any ideas?

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