How to exclude / hide posts of a category (or multiple categories) from displaying in the blog homepage?

Suppose you have a blog on WordPress setup and customization, and you want to hide “Books Review” and “Hosting Review” from blog homepage(is_home). Because you want to place them in the navigation menu.

So here is an easy tutorial at your service.

• You have to find the category id for each categories. You can find them from Dashboard > Posts > Categories, click on Edit and take a note of the number beside tag_ID=. Repeat the step if you want to exclude multiple categories.
• Now open functions.php file from WordPress theme folder. If you are using our basic WordPress child theme, you may have to create a file called functions.php.
• Paste the following code in the file.

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function exclude_category( $query ) {
 if ( $query
->
is_home ) {
 $query
->
set
( 'cat'
, '-15,-48' )
;
 }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts'
, 'exclude_category' )
;

• Number represents the category id. Suppose your Book Review category id is 15 and Hosting Review category id is 48. If you have multiple category, add a minus (-) before your category id and add them with a comma (,) separators as we did.
• Now save the file and upload to your theme folder.
• Refresh your homepage. I believe you have successfully excluded all posts of a category (or multiple categories) from your homepage.

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By Jinnat Ul Hasan | On Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 | Under How To's | No Comments »

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