i figured out how to get the comic post links to work in the archives, yet be invisible on the index page.
the full statement is (for anyone else who might need it):
<?php if ( !(in_category(‘7’) && is_home()) ) { ?>
sorry for the confusion.
anyone else have any ideas?
i used:
<?php if (in_category(‘7’)) continue; ?>
to exclude cat7 from the index page. and i have an archives.php page. i couldn’t figure out how to create an archive and went to http://db.rambleschmack.net/blog/2005/06/28/how-to-make-a-wordpress-archives-page/
and followed *most* of those instructions. i didn’t have ‘page options’ so i went to the codex and followed the rest of the create-a-page/template instructions.