Setting posts of a category not to show on main page

  • Resolved Red1

    (@red1)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    My site is for automotive news. (www.motoring-news.com)
    I need a section that deals with the release of new models. This requires that the posts for this section are not posted on the main page by default ie. category “Future” does not post to main page.
    I would also like the posts in this category to expire on a future date (I believe there are plugins for this) and when they do expire to be archived into a seperate archive other than the standard monthly archive.

    How much of this is possible? Any help appreciated.

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Click Extend on the top of this page > Plugins… and search for exclude category or something like that

    Thread Starter Red1

    (@red1)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks moshu, I’m very new to WP, still finding my way around where to look for things.
    I have noticed that quite a lot of the plugins I’ve found are now not compatible with 2.3 and are not being updated.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Well, WP 2.3. is relatively new and plugin authors (like everybody else) have their lives… mostly outside of WP 🙂

    Some plugins might get updated – others will be forgotten as it happened with so many “orphan” plugins.

    motocafe

    (@motocafe)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    This seems to be a common request. Instead of relying on plugin authors, is there some way this feature could be incorporated into WP?

    nocturnea

    (@nocturnea)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    you can do it by putting this in your index.php file of your theme:

    before your post content:

    <?php if ( in_category(17) ) {
echo ' <div style="display: none;">';
}
?>

    after your post content:

    <?php if ( in_category(17) ) {
echo ' </div>';
}
?>

    replace 17 with the id number of the category you want to exclude.

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