Genesis featured posts on home page – use hidden blogs from homepage

Dear Sir/Madam,

I was wondering if you could help me with this case:
I’d like to use the “Genesis featured posts” widget featuring some posts on the front page of my website, however I don’t want these posts to appear on the website as well, but when I use the plugin WP Hide Post and use the “hide from front page” button, the posts don’t appear within the widget anymore either. I can press “Exclude previous displayed posts?” but actually I just only want to use the widget for those posts, and not for them to appear on home at all.

I’m quite new to wordpress, hopefully you could help me!

Many thanks in advance,
Esther

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