Posts with a certain category not visible on static

You could do something like this:

function exclude_category($query) {
	if ( $query->is_home() ) {
		$query->set('cat', '-46');
	}
	return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

where 46 is the ID of the category you want to exclude.

Hi OakwoodGates,

I will give it a try and see if that works.

Thanks.

Hi OakwoodGates,

I cannot see any id for the categories. Where can I find out what id the specific category has?

If you are in the wp-admin->Posts->Categories, and click on the category, then take a look at the url in the browser. Somewhere in that url, you should see something like ID=46 (or whatever).

Does that make sense?

That does make sense. I am going to check it out.

I use this code to exclude my categories from various places, similar to what oakwoodgates posted:

function remove_my_categories( $wp_query ) {
  // 61 = Daily Tweets, 74 = Testing
  $remove_cat = '-61,-74';

  // remove from archives (except category archives), feeds, search, and home page, but not admin areas
  if( (is_home() || is_feed() || is_search() || ( is_archive() && !is_category() )) && !is_admin()) {
    set_query_var('cat', $remove_cat);
    //which is merely the more elegant way to write:
    //$wp_query->set('cat', '-' . $remove_cat);
  }
}

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'remove_my_categories' );

Whatever works. ??

Hi MarkRH,

Thanks for your code.

I will test your code as well.