Hiding a certain category from home with a free wordpress plan/account
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I’ve spent hours searching Google for this information and at this point I am not even sure if it’s possible at all. I am wondering; is it possible to hide/exclude a certain category from my home page, but have it accessible via the custom menu? I’ve actually figured out how to have the posts from this category appear on a separate page, but what I do not know how to do (or if it’s possible to do at all with a free site) is to hide those same posts so that they do not show on the homepage.
I’m not sure if more information or an example is needed but I will give one just in case. My website is geared to many lifestyle topics. On my home page (blog) I’d like to show posts focused on site/business updates or upcoming projects; however, I also have a ‘Love & Relationships’ page. All posts with the Love & Relationships category are set to appear on their corresponding page, but is there a way to keep these same posts from appearing on the homepage so as not to overshadow my other posts?
Sorry if my post is a bit too detailed or repetitive and thank you for any help that anyone may be able to offer, if at all.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Dear Team-LB, I have the same problem. I also spent hours on looking for a solution. Up to now I did not find one. When you receive the right answer please do inform me also. Emmanuel (https://emmfed.com)
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Dear Emmanuel, you have my word! I am hoping that someone can help us or at the very least, we run across the answer ourselves. But if I do happen upon a solution, I’ll be sure to let you know!
– Maliyah
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Dear Maliyah, thank you for your quick answer. As you can see on my site: “https://emmfed.com”, I am having the same problem. Read my last post: “Capture One Pro 9”. I have tried many codes that I found on the internet, but up till now they did not work (or I am doing something wrong. So, it is of no use to send you these codes. I have also chat with a Staff member, and he did not manage to help me. I will chat another day with another staff member, as I am sure that what we want is possible, In that, I keep om trying to find a solution. Once I have a working code to embed in the HTML-page, I send you the solution. I should like to say: NO FEAR, NO RUSH. We will find a solution… Greetings, Emm.
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I’m so sorry for my late reply, Emm! I got a little busy, but earlier as soon as you responded the first time, I checked out your website. It is absolutely lovely and very professional! I love it. I truly hope that we can find the solution to our problem as WordPress is a very good host with lots of options and possibilities. It seems as though it should be so simple to fix, but so far I haven’t found any answers. I’ve just gotten back to my computer and am going to resume searching. If I find the solution, I promise to share it with you as well! I am sure we will find the help we need!
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Dear Maliyah
Next my temporary solution
P r o b l e m
How to exclude posts that share the same blog category: <Love & Relationships> from displaying on the front page; the front page holds the latest blog posts
P r o b l e m
How to display posts that share the same blog category: <Love & Relationships> on the page: <Love & Relationships>; that page is in fact a Category Archive Page, i.e. a custom menu tab that automatically displays only the posts that share the same blog category <Love & Relationships>
T e m p o r a r y S o l u t i o n
(1) On your primary website <teamlesbians.wordpress.com>, delete the existing Category Archive Page named: <Love & Relationships>, and create a normal menu page that you name: <Love & Relationships>.
(2) Next, create free of charge a new WordPress website (your secondary website) that you name: <loveandrelationships.wordpress.com>, or something similar. That website you give the site tittle: <Love & Relationships>, and the Tagline: <Team Lesbians>. Use the same appearance theme and layout as that from your primary website. In that, the secondary website is recognizable as a Team Lesbians site.
(3) On the primary website: <teamlesbians.wordpress.com>, write a text for the newly created menu page: <Love & Relationships>. The caption of that page is: <Love & Relationships>. The heading of the page text could be: <Introduction>. In the text, you write how you define: <Love & Relationships>, what you are aiming at with the “Love & Relationship”-posts, and so on, and so forth. Insert a link in the texts that redirects the website visitor from out of this writing to your secondary site: <Love & Relationships>.
(4) All “Love & Relationships”-posts you only publish on this secondary website.
________________________________________So, a website visitor of: <teamlesbians.wordpress.com> that is interested in: “Love & Relationships”, will click on the menu page: <Love & Relationships>. That Menu page reads some info and hold a link for further reading. After clicking this link, the visitor is redirected to your secondary website, where she, or he, can read all your posts about: “Love & Relationships”.
________________________________________(5) Once the solution is found for the WordPress-problem, you delete the secondary site and only continue your blogging with your primary site: <teamlesbians.wordpress.com>.
NOTE
I will do as written above
Good luck
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Oh Emm! How we think alike. Last night I was awake until 4 in the morning trying to think of a workaround and thought of an idea similar to yours but the furthest I got was creating the second blog. Though I didn’t think of that name which is great, I ended up knocking off the “s” from teamlesbians and made the new blog teamlesbian. I thought I could use the 2nd blog to showcase the “Love & Relationship” posts, but I still wasn’t sure of how to correctly link it. That is until I saw your response. Thank you so so so much!
You have no idea of how much you just helped me. I am so appreciative. This is perfect. I will do exactly as you said and that will at least fix this problem temporarily for us until a true solution is found for this WordPress-problem. You are a genius!
Good luck to you too and I sincerely thank you again!! ♥
Maliyah
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Dear Maliyah –
Thank you for your mail, and your friendly words. No need to do excatly as I advise, just do what you can use. Not any obligations to me.
I mail you to tell you that my secondary site is set-up and runs, according to what I had in mind. It will take some time though before the site set-up is completed. To see what I did, please go: <https://emmfed.com>. Next go to the menu page: <Blog>. Read the text, and mouse-click the link. Then, you are directed to the secondary site, where I will now and then publish my photography-talk posts. As you can see, I am trying to give the second site the same looks as the first site, to make the site recognizable as being part of the first site.
You will not hear from me till I have found a solution for our WordPress problem. When I change my mind and decide to continue with 2 sites (which is in fact very convenient) I will inform you.
Also, now and then I will visit your site to see how you are doing.
By the way, these days I also hardly see my bed and sometimes work till 03:00 or 04:00 o’clock in the night, to get everything working in the way I like it. That is just the way it is; you do not get these things when being inactive.
Well the, Maliyah, Good Luck with your work, and with your site.
– Emmanuel
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