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1. wolfkin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This is probably a fairly common question, but I haven't been able to find a decent answer so I'm asking myself.

   Basically I'm trying to separate my categories. I have five categories (News, Events, Personal Life, Books, Church)

   What I want is to have the News and Events categories on their own page.

   So this is two things.
   1) I want them to not show up on the main blog page
   2) I want a separate page with just those two categories.

   I found this (and this) but as far as I can tell that technique is for a singular post and would require going thru the same manual steps for each post?

   I'm really new to WP so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding how it works but I was thinking for #1 I could somehow in 'the loop' check each post to see if the category is "News" or "Events" and then not display them?

   and for #2 I could create a new theme identical in look to my current them but with the loop only showing "News" and "Events" and then set the N&E page to this new them.

2. wearitwell
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   First you will need a plugin that keeps the categories from showing on your frontpage.
   something like this. But there are some out on the market.

   If you don't like doing it with a plugin, you can manipulate the loop like this.

   That's it ... If you exclude cats from front page you can still click on them in the sidebar and they will show on individual pages.

   Good luck

3. wolfkin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Well seems like what i need to do is create a custom page theme
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
   then manipulate the loop like you said
   http://blogulate.com/content/exclude-categories-from-wordpress-frontpage/

   a tad convoluted but it seems like it'll work for that you have my thanks.

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