For example, TysTips is intended to be a blog about blogging tips and tricks. But sometimes I write posts about other fun stuff, like TechToos, or my various projects. Since these posts aren’t directly related to blogging, they don’t really jive with the scope of the blog. Therefore I like to tuck them away in a separate page within my blog. To do this for my projects, I created a new page in my blog called “Projects”. Now I have a dedicated place to post entries about my various projects. To prevent these posts from detracting from the mission and scope of TysTips.com, I also wanted to exclude them from my main home page. That way if someone landed on my main home page expecting to see tips and tricks, they wouldn’t see a bunch of posts mixed in about nerdy electronics projects. Make sense?
For me the easiest solution was a little plugin called Ultimate Category Excluder. It’s extremely simple to use and it works great. Here’s how to use it:
- Make a distinct category (or categories) for all the posts you want to excluded from your Main Home Page. In my example, all project-related posts are given the category “Projects”. (I use the Inline Posts Plugin to make sure that all my Projects Posts show up on my Projects Page - Directions on how to do that can be found here.)
- Download Ultimate Category Excluder (UCE), unzip, and upload to your wp-content/plugins/folder.
- Log in to your WordPress blog and activate UCE.
- Navigate to the UCE Settings>Category Exclusion page and check any and all categories you want to prevent from showing up on your main/home/index page. In the image below (click to enlarge) you can see that I have checked the category “Projects” to exclude it from my main home page (be sure to click “Update” after you choose your category).
- Now when I navigate back to my main home page all posts with the category “Projects” are gone.
That’s it. Leave a comment if you have any questions. I hope this helps!
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