Question

I’m using WordPress page templates to pull posts with certain categories into their own page. My problem is that they are also showing on the home page. I know how to hide categories from the home page entirely, but I’d like a toggle so that if it’s checked, it will post to home page and sub-page and if it’s not checked, it will display only on the sub-page. Does that make sense?

This code is on the “Awards” template and pulls in posts containing the category slug “awards”.

<?php
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
    $args= array(
        'category_name' => 'awards', // Change these category SLUGS to suit your use.
        'paged' => $paged
    );
    query_posts($args);?>

The “awards” category is then blocked from the home page using a query_posts tag:

<?php if ( is_home() ){ 
     query_posts( 'cat=-5' ); //-5 is the category id for 'awards'
}?>

I tried to get around this by also tagging the post with a category that isn’t blocked from the home page, but it apparently doesn’t care that it’s tagged with something else.

So my conundrum is that I would like a simple option (hah) that allows me to pick and choose if it belongs on the home page or not, while still having them all show on this other page.

Answer 1

Well.. in the middle of writing this, I was inspired and sure enough I found the simple solution. ‘Uncategorized’ is the default category and has the id of 1. On the index page, I simply added the ‘query_posts( ‘cat=1′ );’ underneath the bit of code that blocks the other categories. This way, I can tag it for the category I want on one of the sub pages, but also for ones that I want to show on the homepage. Here is the code as it is on my index.php:

<?php if ( is_home() ){
            query_posts( 'cat=-5' );
            query_posts( 'cat=1' );
        }?>

So if I want it on the home page AND the subpage, I’ll categorize it as ‘awards’ AND ‘Uncategorized’ (or whatever you choose to be the homepage category). If I want it only on the subpage, I just choose that category. This works because the ‘query_posts( ‘cat=1′ );’ is written below the ‘query_posts( ‘cat=-5′ );’ part, so it’s happening after the block which tells the server to display it after all.