Displaying Post with a certain category on the home page

[jasonbuksh]

I have a number of posts marked under certain categories - I would like to only display those posts with a certain category(s) on the home page ..... how do I do this. At the moment SWIFT displays all - which isn't quite what I need.


Jason

[Satish]

add this line

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=5,6,7'); ?>


before

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();


In layouts/blog.php and layouts/magzine.php


Replace 5,6,7 with the id's of categories you want to display.

[theconservativeblog]

there's also a really good plugin called Simply Exclude if you don't want to mess about with code, or want it to be a temporary thing.


I use it, highly recommended and works perfectly with Swift

[DiamondDuck]

I can't get any of my posts to appear in the Home Page magzine section. It's completely blank.


How do I assign what categories get listed there...I would actually prefer just to have the most recent ones (perhaps 10) listed.


What I'm referring to: http://www.billfallwell.com


Thanks!


Kristofer

[javalink8]

How about if I want to display posts of a certain category only on 1 page, but not the homepage? Is there a PHP snippet I can put in the body of a page maybe?