How do I prevent posts from a particular category from appearing on my homepage?

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  intimore · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 12:59 pm

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  Hello,
  I was wondering exactly how is it that i stop posts from my literature category from appearing on my homepage? I already have a separate page for it and want it confined to that.
  I’m not very techie so layman’s terms would be appreciated :P
  Thank you

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 2:48 pm

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  Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  If you want to have pages that do update then they must be dynamic category pages that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category.

  By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages into the custom menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  For a step by step approach see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 2:51 pm

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  P.S. Here’s what a forum search turns up. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/exclude-category-from-homepage-on-wordpresscom?replies=3#post-494012

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  intimore · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:22 pm

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  Thank you for the above
  Yes, i have added the category to my menu, but is there any way that whatever i post in that category does not appear on the home page.
  I know there is a plugin, but that is for wordpress.org…

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  intimore · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:23 pm

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  but i see it can’t be helped
  oh well
  thanks for your help :D

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:24 pm

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  That’s right and you’re welcome.