I’m setting up a blog page on a website but only want to show a few specific categories on it. Or better yet exclude one category so it does not appear on that page. Is that possible? And how do I do that?

Thanks!

//Karolina

Once your child theme is set and you know what categories you want to include the next step is to add this code to your function.php file:

function my_home_category( $query ) {
 if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
 $query->set( 'cat', '11');
 }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_home_category' );

If you would like to include more than one category, then just add another ID by inserting a comma and the ID number. For example, this is will display category 11 and category 14.
$query->set( 'cat', ’11, 14’ );

That plugin where unfortunatly to old but I found a similar one.

I would like to implement the meta as it displays in the original blog page
and tried to implement this: <?php x_renew_entry_meta(); ?> on the plugins index-page
But it did not work as I wanted. Is there a way to write it out så that it will fetch the icons correctly?

I’m searching the code but it is surely complex. (in a positive way though) 😉

Would you mind providing additional details about your modification?

Does the plugin you used have its own blog or custom template? Can you provide the page you are customizing.

Unfortunately, we have limited support on third party plugin, but I wanted to see if it can be easily done on your case.

Cheers

I added the icons by the <i> and used the normal get_author and so on to the rest.

Thanks for your help!

Sorry to bring this qt up again but I have more problem. 🙁

I thought I had solved this case but it seems that when I add more blog posts
not all are shown and how to add the more pages like this:
http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/

The best possibility where to display my blog sort of like this:
http://theme.co/x/demo/integrity/1/blog/

But with whole posts of course. 🙂 And with the possibility to only show posts from one category.

Hope there is a soloution for this. 😀

My guess is that pagination is the problem now and we should check your code to see if we can help or not.

By the way I also suggest that you go to settings -> reading -> posts per page and set it to a big amount and see if it works for you.

Thank you.

But I have altered it a bit so that it shows the_content instead of the_excerpt
and also so that it shows the icons that the X theme uses for author, date and category-tag.

The very best would of course be if I could create a child theme and use your existing settings and alter them so that I can show the whole content and only from one category.

However I would much rather skip the child-theme and use some plugin if that was possible. 🙂