Exclude Categories from index

Hi Sherry, there are a few different ways to exclude categories from the blog homepage, but a simple one that works in any theme, with both excerpts or full posts, is described here:

https://www.locoed.com/web-design/how-to-exclude-category-posts-wordpress-tutorial-code/

It’s the section called “Code to Exclude Category Posts in WordPress” and it’s a function that looks like this:

function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home() ) {
$query->set('cat', '-xx');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

You’d replace xx with the category ID you want to exclude.

Let me know if this does the trick.

Thank you!!!