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Hi Andrea! Thanks for your reply. Just to confirm (I am a cut and paste person and learning sloooowly), the correct syntax would be:

function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home ) {
$query->set('cat', '-/news/');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

I learned most everything I know by reading your responses to everybody’s questions! Big thanks!

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 29360128) (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/appmarke/public_html/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 13017

That was one of the memory errors. I had additional memory errors on my install, and they fixed it over at my service provider – a vps (about $90/month). I had them enable the GD Library so that my main blog’s theme (the wpmudev Network theme) could use timthumb to pull images to the main site (although those images are still not being pulled).

I feel like Alice, falling down the rabbit hole…am wondering if I should just do a complete fresh install, but am not sure it will help. Right now I have the site live, with the subdomain setup, but NO plugins running at all.

I did not upgrade, this is a fresh install. I only had one plugin activated on the site so far – custom fields template – and, you guessed it, I deactivated it and voila! No more hanging when I hit publish.

Thanks for your help.

Any thoughts on a custom fields plugin that *works* ? I can of course not use a plugin and create my custom fields on my own…probably best, right?

Thanks again for your timely reply!!!

After much head-scratching, I have used the following code to display my custom post-type ‘review’ on my index/home page AND on my category archive pages. The problem is the ‘menu_nav_item’ addition causes additional “posts’ to show on my index/home page that were created when I created my menu! I am very confused. Please help! I have incuded my code in my child functions file:

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'query_post_type');
function query_post_type($query) {
  if(is_category() || is_tag() || is_home() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) )  {
    $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
	if($post_type)
	    $post_type = $post_type;
	else
	    $post_type = array('post','review','nav_menu_item');
    $query->set('post_type',$post_type);
	return $query;
    }
}