Creating an Internal Blog Page

You could create a private page of posts.

I see the concept. BUT will this keep the posts from those categories from showing up on our main blog page?

I am using the PureVision theme. To accomplish excluding a category from the main blog page, do the following:

I was able to solve the problem by excluding the internal blog post category on our main blog page.

To exclude (from the main blog page) categories besides portfolio you would have to do it by hand.

Edit “\wp-content\themes\purevision\page-Blog” near line forty (40).

Change this line: $query_string = “cat=$portfolio_cats_with_minus&paged=$paged”;
to this: $query_string = “cat=-1,-2,-3,$portfolio_cats_with_minus&paged=$paged”;

where ‘-1,-2,-3’ are example categories (id’s) that you want to exclude.