Not quite sure what you’re asking. But you can set how many posts show on each page though SETTINGS > READING and enter the number of posts you would like to show at Blog pages show at most
If it’s a customized home page you want then check out Static Front Page with Dynamic Content tutorial.
Good luck.
Roy
(@gangleri)
You can exclude categories from the index, even archives and search results if you like. There are several category excluder plugins in the extend/plugins section. You can also do this with a simple code in the index.php in your example:
<?php if (in_category('20')) continue; ?>
(where 20 is the ID of the category to exclude)
This goes just below “the loop”:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
