Controlling Whether Posts Appear On Front Page?

What do you mean by background? You mean, like a draft? You can set post status to ‘Publish,’ ‘Draft,’ and ‘Private.’ I’m afraid I don’t understand.

No. Sorry. I’ll be less vague (always a problem for me, it seems). I’m designing a site that hosts, among lots of other things, teaching resources for university professors–handouts, in-class activities, etc. I’d like to be able to just assign a couple of categories and hit post and have that post ONLY appear in its assigned category and not on the front page, where I want other things to reside.
At the moment, I’ve simply set up a “main” category as the front page of the site, which seems to be doing the trick.
I was just wondering if it were possible to tell WP not to post something on the front page.

FYI I’ve made a plugin to do this, which needs testing.
https://www.richardgoodwin.com/showfrontpage.zip

Please let me know if it works out for you or not, mail to wordpress AT richardgoodwin dot com. Instructions are in the plugin.

GREAT! Much better than limiting the category(s) for the front page, which I could’t get to work anyway. This way, I can select what I want there.

One thing though. I only have two posts being displayed and there is a “- Next Page” at the bottom of the screen. Even when I had many posts on th front page (prior to activating the plugin) I never got this. I just scrolled.

Is there a way to supress this “-Next” from appearing?
Is it being displayed because of a WP1.5 setting, or a plugin setting?

Thanks in advance

I got it! I had my “maximum number of posts to display” set to 12, as seen on the Options section of the Dashboard/Admin screen. Even though the categories I wanted to be displayed on the front page were filtered down to just two posts, the plugin script script still saw that there were 13 possible, and thus dislayed the “next” link. Once I increased the limitation to 100, all is fine.