How to add new posts but prevent them appearing on blog homepage

  • Resolved nottinghamjazz

    (@nottinghamjazz)


    15 years, 3 months 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

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  • asfodel

    (@asfodel)

    15 years, 3 months 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

    roya-khosravi

    (@roya-khosravi)

    15 years, 3 months 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(); ?>
....

    Thread Starter nottinghamjazz

    (@nottinghamjazz)

    15 years, 3 months 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!

    samandiriel

    (@samandiriel)

    14 years, 7 months 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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