How do you select what catagories you want to appear on the front page?

Hi,

so we have an online shop selling apparel. Its slowly taking off and i want all our stock from our bricks and mortar on there aswell as the new stock.

alot of this stock is old and i’ve marked it clearance. However the designs are a few years old and i dont want them to appear on the front.

I’ve checked the settings and all i can have is:-

to have them in order of new listings (this brings in the clearance items too)
to have them in order of best selling (our items tend to be one off pieces so once sold they’re gone)
to have them in order of highest price (which doesnt bring up the good stuff.)

is there anyway to exclude a catagory?

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