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PS: I discovered an undesirable side-effect of excluding categories from the homepage as shown above:

Now “page 2” of my homepage displays the exact same posts as the homepage. So when I scroll down to the bottom of my homepage and click “Older Posts”, the URL changes to “myblog.com/page/2” but the exact same posts are displayed as on “myblog.com.”

But when I remove

<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
	query_posts( 'cat=-198' );
}
?>

from index.php, then all is well again.

What’s this all about???

Alright, the trick is to create a separate category for all posts one wants to exclude from the front page, and then add the following code to index.php right before the loop:

<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
	query_posts( 'cat=-198' );
}
?>

(in this case “198”is the number of the category to exclude)

OK, now I don’t get an error messages, but the posts in question are still visible on the index page, so this line of code appears to have no effect.

Here’s how I inserted the line of code you suggested into my index page:

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Default_Theme
 */

get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn" role="main">

<?php $args = array(
'post__not_in' => array( 12278, 11743 )
);
query_posts( $query_string . '&' . $args );?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Is that where the line is supposed to go?

Thanks. I added the line you suggested to index.php right before the loop starts, and now I get this error on the webpage:

Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: Argument #2 should be an array in /home/content/47/4612947/html/blog/wp-includes/query.php on line 2151

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/content/47/4612947/html/blog/wp-includes/query.php on line 2151

What am I doing wrong?

Also, the numbers you put in parentheses there (2, 5, 12, 14, 20), are these the post IDs?

Alright. I figured it out.

To whom else it may concern:

The Publish button is located at:

wp-admin -> includes -> meta-boxes.php

In order to move it out of the way, look for this chunk of code, located in the upper half of the page:

<a class="submitdelete deletion" href="<?php echo get_delete_post_link($post->ID); ?>"><?php echo $delete_text; ?></a><?php
} ?></div>
<div id="publishing-action">
<img src="<?php echo esc_url( admin_url( 'images/wpspin_light.gif' ) ); ?>" class="ajax-loading" id="ajax-loading" alt="" />

Then simply add an inside style to the div with the id=”publishing action,” like this:

<a class="submitdelete deletion" href="<?php echo get_delete_post_link($post->ID); ?>"><?php echo $delete_text; ?></a><?php
} ?></div>
<div id="publishing-action" style="position:relative; top:3000px">
<img src="<?php echo esc_url( admin_url( 'images/wpspin_light.gif' ) ); ?>" class="ajax-loading" id="ajax-loading" alt="" />

So in my case, this moves the blue Publish button 3000px down, i.e., WAY DOWN the page where I couldn’t possibly hit it by mistake.

Of course, this modification must be performed after each WP update, but that’s fine. Takes about a minute.

Sounds good, but I haven’t made any changes to my core files since my last WP version update, so there’s nothing to revert.

I installed the plugin, activated it, wrote a test post, hit the blue Publish button, no warning appeared, and the test post was published as if the plugin didn’t exist.

Before I embark on a trial&error session publishing test posts until I get the plugin to work, do you happen to know how to deactivate RSS so that all these test posts don’t go out into people’s RSS readers? If I deactivate my Feedburner plugin, will that prevent test posts from going out?

Thanks. No, this plugin doesn’t work, just as it didn’t work the last few times I tried it.

Prior to WP version 3.0 (or whatever the version was, I don’t recall exactly), after each version update I would simply go to wp-admin/css/colors-fresh.css and slap an inside-style ‘position:relative; top:1000px’ on the code for the Publish button, and that solved the problem like a charm, because now I had to scroll all the way down the page in order to get to it, and I couldn’t hit it by mistake anymore.

But these days, the code for the Publish button has moved to wp-admin -> includes -> meta-boxes.php, and it’s different in a sense that adding an inside style there exceeds my coding skills.

Whether this is an issue with WordPress or not, it is certainly the only recurring issue I am having when working with this platform

Never mind. Piece of cake. All I had to do was add a new page template.

Everything resolved.

Thanks. I wasn’t aware of the “Screen Options” field.

Now how do I get rid of the line “Comments are closed” at the bottom of the page?

Also, I added a “Terms of Use” link to page.php, which shouldn’t display on a page without a comment section.

Worked. Thank you.

Just out of curiosity, why a period (.post-1111) for posts and a # (#post-1111) for pages?

Alright. For this page only, I’d like to replace all the red quotation marks with a different picture.

The problem with this solution is that it moves down the Publish button AS WELL AS the Update button on already published posts. I don’t really want the Update button all the way down there.

All I want is the PUBLISH button out of my sight. It was so easy before. I think I’ll go back to version 2.9.

I’m sorry, I’m not the biggest coding genius. Not quite sure what you mean by “add a new one.” You mean simply add a new stylesheet, call it “newstyle.css” and put it in the wp-admin CSS folder along with all the other stylesheets?

I tried that. Doesn’t work. Obviously, I would have to add a link to this new stylesheet to a header somewhere, but I don’t know to what page.

However, I tried adding your code suggestion to a few of the existing stylesheets in wp-admin, and the Publish Button actually moved down after I added it to the “colors-fresh.css” sheet.

That solves it. If I have to perform this procedure after every WP upgrade, that’s fine. As long as it works.

Thank you for your help.

I tried. Somehow I can’t find it. But there must be a style sheet that contains the CSS for the Publish button. I’m sure it doesn’t display at its current location because God put it there.

This is such a pain in the neck. It was so easy before. I almost feel like retrograding my version back to 2.9. so I could easily move this stupid Publish button out of the way. (I mean, I want the button, but NOT ANYWHERE NEAR the Draft button.)

Thanks. I’ll look into how to create a custom admin stylesheet. Probably a good idea.

Until then, I’m very interesting in adding the little position:relative quickfix. I searched around, but I can’t find the correct one among the untold of admin CSS sheets.

Do you or anyone happen to know which one of the wp-admin stylesheets contains the CSS for the blue Publish button on the “Edit Post” page?