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1. nottinghamjazz
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have a blog for my band.

   I also want to add non-band related posts to my blog (to drive more viewers to my site) but I don't want those unrelated posts to appear on the homepage of the blog. When a user views my blog I want only the relevant band posts to appear on the homepage.

   How do I suppress some posts from being added automatically to the top of my blog homepage, but still make those posts indexable (and hence googleable) ?

   Does this question make sense? Thanks

2. asfodel
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You can use categories to accomplish this. Use a separate category for the non-band related posts and then edit the code to exclude that category from the main page.
   http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category

3. roya khosravi
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   to display posts from all categories except category_id 18:
   in /wp-content/themes/your theme/index.php
   

   .....
   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php if (is_home()) query_posts("cat=-18"); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   ....

4. nottinghamjazz
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Wow that was super smart. I found all I needed to add was:

   <?php if (is_home()) query_posts("cat=-5"); ?>

   beneath the <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> and before the <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> lines at the top of my default theme index.php

   Thank you for your help!

5. samandiriel
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Good trick, just what I was looking for to prevent posts with video from appearing on my main page!

   Many thanks!

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