possible for posts to show up on home page and others just on specified menus?

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  justalittledot · Member · Jun 25, 2015 at 4:08 am

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  I would like most of my posts to be shown on my home page. However, there are some posts under a certain category labeled ‘Dot’s Thoughts’ that I would like to be seperate than all my other posts and show up under the menu also labeled ‘Dot’s thoughts’. How can I create a post that will only show up under this menu and not on my home page as well?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 25, 2015 at 7:24 am

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  How can I create a post that will only show up under this menu and not on my home page as well?

  You can’t. Blog posts by default appear on your home page (main feed) in reverse chronological order. You cannot prevent posts from publishing on the main feed, but you can set up category pages that will only display posts that have a certain category assigned. Just to be clear, any post on a category page will ALSO appear on the main feed/home page. There’s no way to prevent this.

  You’ll need to create a custom menu in order to use category pages. See these articles for comprehensive instructions:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

  To not have your main feed appear on the home page you’ll need to assign a static page as your home page. Instructions to do that here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  You cannot assign a category page as your home page.

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  justalittledot · Member · Jun 25, 2015 at 7:38 pm

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  Okay, that explains why after 2 1/2 hours of trying to figure this out that I still couldn’t. Bummer! Thank you for the information and for taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it!