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1. Epicenter
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hello! First of all, WP is awesome, and is proving to be an invaluable tool.

   My situation is this-- I use WP to run a site which is not really a blog. So whenever I make a page of content, I manually add it to the sidebar/etc. for users to access it. All these pages are posts of course, and I do the same with news posts. I want the news posts to show up on the home page, but I don't want every page I make to-- that would clutter the homepage with every bit of content I add.

   Is there some way to select whether a page I publish is displayed on the homepage or not?

   Thanks for any ideas!

2. kaykoral
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   This topic might interest you: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/97426?replies=10

3. IanonMac
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Epicenter, I think non-blog posts (static pages) can be created as HTML pages (not as a new post) and then you can a link to it in the header file so that it appears in the horizontal navigation across the top of the page, and also add a link to the page in a HTML widget in your sidebar. This does require fairly good knowledge of HTML code.

   Part of my planned site is a blog, but it's not the main part, so is there a way to designate a secondary page as the blog index?

   Thank you.

4. Epicenter
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have >100 pages that are already posts and they will still show up as news posts so that doesn't help unfortunately. :( I need some way I can selectively change what posts will or won't show up, if that exists..

   Thanks though :)

5. Epicenter
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   No way to do this? :(

6. kaykoral
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm thinking you skipped reading my post or something.

7. Epicenter
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Excellent-- thanks. I missed that. Advanced Category Excluder works perfectly in my case, even in 2.5.x. The only problem in it I see is that it's reluctant to use any categories that didn't exist when it was installed. Thankfully that is a minor problem and I can disregard it.

   Thanks again!

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