I need to be able to make posts and not have them appear on the main page. How can I do this?

I'm using the main page as a blog that will have post daily.

I need to be able to post to the secondary page and not have it show up on the first page.

What is the best way to set this up? Do I need a PlugIn?

I tried Page2Cat but it just bullet point lists Category Titles.

To have posts of a certain category not show up on the home page, find, in index.php, around line 100-103, this:

PHP Code:

    <?php // Do this for all posts:
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?>

(You might not have the $postcount++ part if your Atahualpa version is older)

and add the following right above it (to exclude posts of the category with the ID 3):

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3");
} ?>

To exclude posts from several categories, i.e. categories with the ID's 3, 7 and 11:

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3,-7,-11");
} ?>

I do have that code. It's around line 41 though.

I was hoping that I could create a custom field or do something else. I would like to avoid having to update my index.php every time I post to the secondary page.

Any other Ideas or suggestions?

Why would you have to update your index.php each time? If you want a new post to not appear on the homepage, put it into the category that you excluded with the above code.

I don't know what I was thinking, you're right.

The code works, the new posts are now only posting to the Category I want them to.

Is it possible to not have those posts show up in the "Recent Post" widget?

Also the posts to the Categories show up in a "Collapsed" state, not showing the content in the body, only the Title. Any idea about this?

Originally Posted by Flynn

To have posts of a certain category not show up on the home page, find, in index.php, around line 100-103, this:

PHP Code:

    <?php // Do this for all posts:
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?>

(You might not have the $postcount++ part if your Atahualpa version is older)

and add the following right above it (to exclude posts of the category with the ID 3):

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3");
} ?>

To exclude posts from several categories, i.e. categories with the ID's 3, 7 and 11:

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() AND !is_paged() ) {
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-3,-7,-11");
} ?>

Hello,

I found this post very helpful, however I tried it on my website: www.gametvweb.com didn't work, Actually the instruction
<?php // Do this for all posts:
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?> was in page.php file not the in index.php. I dont want to havefeatred articles to be posted on the main page, do u have any clew how to do it.
any help will be much appreciated.
thanks

You shouldn't have a page.php. What Atahualpa version do you have?

Sorry I don't know what is Atahualpa ? how can I know which version is? the only think I know is I'm using wordpress 2.7.1 !!!

But definitely the them has page.php file, I included the them file on this link http://www.gametvweb.com/theme/ please take a look at them and let me know what do u think?

Your help really appreciated.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Nad

Sorry I don't know what is Atahualpa ? how can I know which version is? the only think I know is I'm using wordpress 2.7.1 !!!

But definitely the them has page.php file, I included the them file on this link http://www.gametvweb.com/theme/ please take a look at them and let me know what do u think?

Your help really appreciated.

Thanks

You seem to be using another theme. I cannot support other developer's themes I'm afraid. I suggest that you ask on the blog of the developer of your theme.