How to Exclude Posts of Certain Categories from Your Blog’s homepage
This Smart WordPress plugin lets you Exclude posts from a certain category from appearing in the Home page.
Installation
1.Download the Front Page Excluded Categories plugin and Upload it to your Wp-content Folder
2.Go to “Manage Categories” from WordPress Admin panel.If you are Using WordPress 2.7+ you will Find it from “Posts-Categories”.
3.Note the Category ID’s you wish to Exclude from your Blogs Homepage.To know the Category ID’s of your Categories Just Hover the Cursor over your Desired category and you will see the ID in the Status bar.
4.Open the plugin Editor and Select the “FrontPage excluded Categories” for Editing.Find the String $cats_to_exclude and include your category ID’s by separating Commas.
That’s it.Now Save the plugin and Visit Your Home page.
Do you know any other Plugin that does a Similar Job or even Better ?
Related Articles
- How to Exclude Posts Of Certain Tag From Appearing in Blog’s Homepage
- How to Customize WordPress Category Feeds With Feedburner
- Customize the Number of Posts On Different Pages of your WordPress Blog
- How to Show Category and Tag Descriptions In WordPress Theme
- Easily Manage your Blog Posts with manageable
Hi, cool site, good writing ;)
Hey, Nice Post and very Help ful! THanks! :)
Hi, I tried it but it didn’t work, my WP version is 2.7.1. I followed everything but still it didn’t. Here’s what I did:
function fpe_where($where) {
// Change the $cats_to_exclude string to the category id you do not want to appear on the front page.
// Example: $cats_to_exclude = ’1, 2, 3, 4′;
$cats_to_exclude = ’7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14′;
global $wpdb, $wp_query;
if (! $wp_query->is_home || strlen($cats_to_exclude) == 0) {
return $where;
}
if (empty($wpdb->term_relationships))
{
$where .= ” AND $wpdb->post2cat.category_id NOT IN (” . $cats_to_exclude . “)”;
}
else
{
$where .= ” AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id NOT IN (” . $cats_to_exclude . “)”;
}
return $where;
My category IDs are 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14. Did I place it correctly? Also, this plugin is already activated in my WP admin site.
@ Ryan : Sorry to Hear That it didn’t worked.Your plugin code is correct. Try disabling other Plugins to see if there is a Conflict or not. What do you mean By “activated in wp-admin” site ?
Thank you Amit for your promt response. The only active plugin that I have enabled aside from this is Askimet.
I forgot to tell you am using the Sliding Door theme, see my blog at http://www.framedinsunlight.com. I think it has to do something with this theme that’s why it’s not working.
@Ryan : If That be the case then You have to look In your theme’s Source and edit if Necessary. Have You tried to switch To The WordPress default theme and See whether The plugin Works or not ?
Has anyone found a solution to this yet? It doesn’t work in my wp version 2.8 either. My template is soho-serenity.
@geejay : But it works for me and i am also using wordpress 2.8. Did you edited the Plugin editor ??
I got it working after several hit and misses. What I did was removed the “tags” from the blog posts I want to appear on the categories. Those with tags appeared on my front page. Try it, it worked for me. :)
Surpring issue : Never had any Problems with that Plugin. I think there was something problematic with your theme. ANyway Its nice that your problem is fixed . Keep rocking Ryan !
Thanks for the suggestions. Let me go check if they work with my template.
Thanks for your kind words & I’m pretty sure that that this will work for you. Whatever if it doesn’t, feel free to ask we will reply ASAP. Thanks again & keep coming.
(…) though unrelated to this web site, still http://www.ampercent.com is one another interesting source of tips on this topic(…)
(…) though unrelated to this web site, still http://www.ampercent.com is one another nice source on this subject(…)
Interesting plugin thanks! Just hope it work for me
@Insurance Guy Oh sure, It has worked for many others.