Hiding the "Home" Category on wordpress

SantiSantana · 09-21-2009, 11:07 AM

Hi all,

I am looking at the possibility of hiding the HOME category in my Heat Map theme. What I want to achieve is having the Home category as my backoffice section, so that i would be posting the content there and assigning it to a category, except the public would not see the home section, only the category.

The reason I want to do this is that the site is meant to be a tutorial site, with many categories, and having al lthe tutorials submitted into the same section would make it look cluttered ( at least in my opinion).

So i would setup an overview page of what's new on the root address, have the sections and everything showing there and whenever i get a new tutorial in, it would be posted in the HOME category (now invisible to the visitors) and in the category it corresponds too, making the whole site look more like a website than a blog.

Problem is, I'm not exactly a whiz when it comes to web design or using we development tools. Is there perhaps a plugin that would allow me to achieve this?

Thanks in advance for your replies

Ron Killian · 09-21-2009, 08:42 PM

Guess it kind of depends how the home link is added, if it's hard coded or script added, such as dynamically generated. Of course if it's hard coded, could usually be deleted or commented out. Theme's can vary so much, you'll need to look into the code of the theme.

Guess I wasn't much help.

GeekSpecialties · 09-21-2009, 10:22 PM

The HOME page is the page set in your admin dashboard. If you want it to be different page simply create a page, we'll call it Tutorials, and the change the settings in the reading settings. You can set which page you want to act as the home page and which you want to act as the blog page.

If you don't want to do it that way read this link.
wordpress.org/support/topic/310031

There is also a plugin to exclude pages from navigation called:
Exclude Pages from Navigation

09-21-2009, 11:07 AM	#1
SantiSantana HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Canary Islands - Spain Posts: 206 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 21 Thanked 53 Times in 37 Posts	Hiding the "Home" Category on wordpress Hi all, I am looking at the possibility of hiding the HOME category in my Heat Map theme. What I want to achieve is having the Home category as my backoffice section, so that i would be posting the content there and assigning it to a category, except the public would not see the home section, only the category. The reason I want to do this is that the site is meant to be a tutorial site, with many categories, and having al lthe tutorials submitted into the same section would make it look cluttered ( at least in my opinion). So i would setup an overview page of what's new on the root address, have the sections and everything showing there and whenever i get a new tutorial in, it would be posted in the HOME category (now invisible to the visitors) and in the category it corresponds too, making the whole site look more like a website than a blog. Problem is, I'm not exactly a whiz when it comes to web design or using we development tools. Is there perhaps a plugin that would allow me to achieve this? Thanks in advance for your replies
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09-21-2009, 08:42 PM	#2
Ron Killian Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Arkansas, USA. Posts: 1,518 Blog Entries: 17 Thanks: 86 Thanked 124 Times in 98 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Hiding the "Home" Category on wordpress Guess it kind of depends how the home link is added, if it's hard coded or script added, such as dynamically generated. Of course if it's hard coded, could usually be deleted or commented out. Theme's can vary so much, you'll need to look into the code of the theme. Guess I wasn't much help.
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09-21-2009, 10:22 PM	#3
GeekSpecialties Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Hiding the "Home" Category on wordpress The HOME page is the page set in your admin dashboard. If you want it to be different page simply create a page, we'll call it Tutorials, and the change the settings in the reading settings. You can set which page you want to act as the home page and which you want to act as the blog page. If you don't want to do it that way read this link. wordpress.org/support/topic/310031 There is also a plugin to exclude pages from navigation called: Exclude Pages from Navigation