exclude certain categories from featuresite front page

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jamielt
Member

Hi All

I am trying to find out how to exclude certain categories from the thematic featuresite theme front page. I have searched the forum posts to no avail. Thanks for your help.

Posted 1 year ago #

Devin
Member

I'm not sure that this will work, but try replacing this line in front-page.php:

<?php
                  $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
                  $recentPosts->query('showposts=5');
              ?>

with:

<?php
                  $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
                  $recentPosts->query('showposts=5&cat=-3');
              ?>

3, in this case, is the category id you are excluding.

Posted 1 year ago #

jamielt
Member
Hey Thanks Devin;
Thanks for your reply. I am new to Wordpress... trying to learn.

I played around with what you gave me and came up with this:
```
<?php
                  $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
                  $recentPosts->query('category_name=news&showposts=5');
              ?>
```
It works :)

jamielt
Posted 1 year ago #

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